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From: ggrant@crl.com (Gary E. Grant)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: can't find modem...
Date: 23 Sep 1995 10:46:22 -0700
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In article <440q2d$18l@senior.nectec.or.th>,
Tuan Kubaha  <s36tkb@cc2.cpe.ku.ac.th.> wrote:
>Hello,
>I have a problem with my modem card. I 'd just install FreeBSD 2.0.5.
>My modem is set at COM4. When the system is bootup, it can't find sio3.
>How do I do with this problem. If necessary to re-compile a kernel, 
>please tell me step by step to compile it and config it.
>please mail to me at s36tkb@cc2.cpe.ku.ac.th.
>                                        Thank you,
>
>
Been there, done that :-) , I've seen this problem before.

The odds are that, the irq on the modem is set incorrectly for use with the
 FBSD kernel . FBSD does not share irqs,  in the same manner as MSDOS . 

Therefore you should set the modem's irq to 9 or 5, and then
boot -c and set sio3 appropriately.

Gary :-)