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From: jbarrm@panix.com (Barry Masterson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Modem at COM3: can't find it!
Date: 18 Jun 1996 06:57:11 -0400
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Mike Berry (berrym@red.seas.upenn.edu) wrote:
: BSD gurus,

: I've got an internal modem on COM3;  I can get to it via
: MS-Kermit if I boot MS-DOS; but can't seem to access it via
: /dev/cuaa2, or any other /dev/cuaa* (using the nifty user-ppp
: package)

: Has anyone had an experience like this?

: Thanks for any suggestions.

I was in the same situation at one time. As I understand it, your pc
really only has two com ports, 3 & 4 under dos are not real. FreeBSD
only recognizes sio0 & sio1 (com 1 & 2).

You'll have to move your modem to sio1 (com2), and most likely
disable com2 on your controller card, as well as setting any modem
jumpers/switches that apply to com ports.

Provided your setup is not any complicated, getting FreeBSD to
recognize your modem is a simple process.

Barry Masterson
jbarrm@panix.com

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