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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Modem at COM3: can't find it! Date: 19 Jun 1996 07:51:51 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4q8827$fe@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4q4bho$7ht@netnews.upenn.edu> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Mike Berry (berrym@red.seas.upenn.edu) wrote: : BSD gurus, : I've got an internal modem on COM3; I can get to it via : MS-Kermit if I boot MS-DOS; but can't seem to access it via : /dev/cuaa2, or any other /dev/cuaa* (using the nifty user-ppp : package) Do you have an IRQ of 4 on COM3 ? If so, that's your problem. If you have SCSI disks, set the IRQ to 5. If you've got IDE, set it to 2/9. If this doesn't help, post the output of "dmesg|fgrep sio". -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....