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From: tmonroe@soda.berkeley.edu (Anthony Monroe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: [FreeBSD] I want my modem back!
Date: 30 May 1994 17:36:23 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Undergrad Assoc, UCBerkeley
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Message-ID: <2sd86n$3s0@agate.berkeley.edu>
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Hello again...

I recently finished installing FreeBSD on my machine and I like it very
much.  Except for one thing, which you can probably guess by reading the
subject line of this article.  But just in case, here it is anyway:

I want my modem back!

It is rather disconcerting to know that I have no connection to the outside
world.  I do have a program which can access the modem, but it doesn't...I
think the problem is that either the kernel doesn't know what a modem is or
is just confused about my modem setup.  What _really_ stinks is that I want
to get a SLIP running again, and I have all the nice programs (like telnet
and ftp) but they're useless.  I just want to get the modem working
properly.  It's on (MS-DOS) COM4.

Ideas?  Please email tmonroe@soda.berkeley.edu.  Thanks.

						Tony