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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.dmv.com!usenet From: Charles A Sutton <soupie@mail.dmv.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Modem not found by install Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 21:59:45 -0700 Organization: DelMarVa OnLine! Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3212AEC1.E09@osprey.smcm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip45.salisbury.dmv.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win16; I) Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.5 by FTP on a 386 system I have at home. But I can't install via PPP, because the kernel keeps refusing to recognize the internal modem I've got on COM2/sio1. Instead I just get the "sio1: not found at x2f8" during the boot. The modem is a Supra FaxModem 28.8, installed on COM2, address 2f8, IRQ 3. It works fine under DOS. I can't just switch the modem to COM1/sio0 because I have a serial mouse connected there (which could have something to do with the problem). I've tried running -c and deleting every driver except the disk controllers, sio0, sio1, and sc0, and it doesn't seem to help. I also have a SoundBlaster card and card for an antediluvian Logitech handheld scanner on the computer, but I'm not concerned with getting them running just yet (or, perhaps, ever). Any ideas/modem configurations/good books to read while I try to install from 50 floppies? Thanks, Charles Sutton casutton@osprey.smcm.edu