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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Modem under FreeBSD
Date: 1 Feb 1997 23:14:02 GMT
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Matthew Blair <Matthew_Blair@jhuapl.edu> wrote:

> It seems, though, that FreeBSD is having a problem dialing my modem.  I
> have a 2400 baud modem which came integrated on the motherboard (COM1),
> and a 14.4K internal modem (ZOOM, COM4).  When I set the modem to
> /dev/cuaa3, ppp could not open the modem.

Are you sure the kernel has even detected that port?  Watch out for
sio3 in the boot messages.  Note that it doesn't expect it to be on
the default COM4 interrupt level, since this one is already assigned
to COM2.  Boot with -c to change the kernel's settings.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)