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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!cmcl2!newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu!starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu!localhost!gene From: gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Modem Woes....Something Drastic??? Date: 13 Dec 94 19:27:05 Organization: Gene Stark's home system Lines: 26 Message-ID: <GENE.94Dec13192705@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> References: <D0oKCt.ntA@ns1.nodak.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.cs.sunysb.edu. In-reply-to: ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu's message of Mon, 12 Dec 1994 04:26:53 GMT In article <D0oKCt.ntA@ns1.nodak.edu> ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) writes: > So far I know of 4 people who have had serious modem problems: > - sio not recognized on startup > - able to dial (and hear the connect) but unable to sustain the connection What version of FreeBSD are you running? > After many days of bleary-eyed configuration and kernel hacking, I've > come to the tentative conclusion that the sio driver is flawed. Some > of the comments lead me to believe that there is serious work > currently being performed on the driver....Is that true? No, to my knowledge the serious work was performed around last May or June, between FreeBSD v 1.1 and 1.1.5. > What is the current state of the sio driver? It works fine, in my opinion. > Has anyone been using it to complete satisfaction? (I assume so or I > would have seen a blizzard of problem reports.) Yes. - Gene Stark