*BSD News Article 84524


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!insync!uunet!in1.uu.net!199.242.23.5!nwlink.com!usenet
From: cjay <cjay@nwlink.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: I must be a putz...no modem recognition.
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 17:42:40 -0800
Organization: is lacking
Lines: 39
Message-ID: <32AB6E90.1C63@nwlink.com>
Reply-To: cjay@nwlink.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: ip049.mu2.nwlink.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I)

Hello again.

I have one last question to ask of you all before I take the plunge into
UNIX land for the week.

Upon installing FreeBSD 2.1.6 with minimal files (bin, doc, manpages) I
tried to go and grab some additional packages like lynx, pdksh, etc.

However....I cannot talk to my modem (USR Sportster 33.6 at 3e8, irq4)
with the "ppp" program.  I need to be able to so that I can access
online resources/help files.  As you can imagine, it's a bit of a pain
to boot into FreeBSD, play around, find something thats not covered in
the man pages, boot into Win95, find the info, boot into FreeBSD, test
it out, play somemore, boot Win95, etc, etc, etc. <BG>

I have sio0 disabled (com1 has an external 14.4 that I use for
text-based systems [BBSes]) which I don't need while using FreeBSD.  I
have a serial mouse on sio1 (configured for 2f8, IRQ3), and the
Sportster is on sio2 (configured for 3e8, IRQ4).  No conflicts as far as
hardware goes.

When using the /stand/sysinstall (or /stand/sysconfig....i forget what
its called...first day running FreeBSD) I try to select adding the
packages via FTP and the "ppp" utility.  All IP info is correct to my
knowledge as I double-checked it with the sysadmin of my ISP before
attempting it.  However...."ppp" won't let me talk to my modem at all. 
I enter the "term" and try to put in AT commands, but there is no
response...nothing even echos to my screen.

I checked the device with the "show modem" command and it says
everything is kosher.  It uses cuaa1.  I have tried it with other cuaax
just to be sure...like cuaa2, cuaa0, etc.

Am I just like missing the boat here or is there something that needs to
be done that isn't explained in the documentation?

If you need more info, just let me know! :)

mailto:cjay@nwlink.com