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From: Matthew Haught <haught_dm@academ.wvwc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: PCMCIA modem support?
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 22:55:59 -0500
Organization: Ichthus Access Networking, Kenova, WV (304) 453-5757
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I been trying to install FreeBSD by FTP through my ppp account, but my
PCMCIA modem is not being found when booting off the boot disk.  After
Kernal configuration it shows sio1 as not being detected at 0x2f8
although that is where the modem should be.  I tried 2.1.6-RELEASE,
2.2-BETA, and  3.0-970124-SNAP but got the same result.  2.2-960501
snapshot is said to support PCMCIA modems, should the later releases
also support this.  Has anyone gotten any PCMCIA modem to work with any
release of FreeBSD?  If so, did you have to do anything to get it to
work?  BTW my PCMCIA Ethernet card was found by FreeBSD, but I cannot
use it -no network yet.

Thanks,
Matthew Haught
haught_dm@academ.wvwc.edu