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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!hal.COM!decwrl!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!bofh.dot!usenet From: Stair <stair@stair-s.kaist.ac.kr> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Modem on COM4 during install Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 13:49:52 +0900 Organization: Korea Research Environment Open Network (KREONet) Lines: 38 Message-ID: <31A7E2F0.167EB0E7@stair-s.kaist.ac.kr> References: <4o7j45$ntr@zip0.zipnet.net> <4o7k3m$oa9@zip0.zipnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: stair-s.kaist.ac.kr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) Eric Ogren wrote: > > Eric Ogren (pitlord@zipnet.net) wrote: > : Some of you may remember me as the person who was wondering if FreeBSD > : worked with Ontrack Diskmanager, well, it seems to now (partitions came up > : fine and everything). > > : Of course, I accidently deleted my Linux partition, getting the wrong > : number, so I'd like to get FreeBSD on line quickly; unfortunately, I can't > : install via PPP it seems, becuase the dialing options are /dev/cuaa1 and > : /dev/cuaa2. > > : Is there any possible way of getting a /dev/cuaa4 in there? I really don't > : want to wste my time on this, and the install, ppp setup looked nice; > > : Somebody please help! =) > > : -Eric > > I think I got the cuaa numbers off, it should be 0 and 1, but anyhow; > after seeing the FAQ, I realized that the kernel has to be recompiled. Is > there any kind soul out there who'd recompile a kernel with settings 02E8, > IRQ3 as one of the comm ports, so I can install FreeBSD? > > Thanks.. > Eric Yes, boot with -c option (supply it on the Boot: prompt) and change I/O address of ``sio1'' device from 0x2f8 to 0x2e8. Now /dev/ttyd1 and /dev/cuaa1 should work with COM4 rather than with COM2. (Of course you don't want to use COM2 and COM4 at the same time, do you?) -- Stair =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Kim, Minsung <stair@chiak.kaist.ac.kr> CS Dept., KAIST