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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!204.191.213.61!ott.istar!istar.net!news.nstn.ca!news.dal.ca!news From: Andrew.Reynolds@novanet.ns.ca (Andrew Reynolds) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PNP Modem with FreeBSD Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 13:06:38 GMT Organization: Novanet Inc. Lines: 33 Message-ID: <32e8b283.158842358@news.ucis.dal.ca> References: <32e8165d.1649425@news.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: andrew.novanet.ns.ca X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34465 groener@vt.edu (Markus K. Groener) wrote: >Hi, >I just made the mistake of purchasing a PNP modem (Diamond >SupraExpress 336i SP) and now of course I can't get it working under >FreeBSD. It doesn't have jumpers to configure the COM ports or IRQs on >it. I don't want to have my old and new modem around (the old one >works fine since it isn't PNP) and was wondering if there are PNP >extensions available for FreeBSD (I have 2.1.6) or if anyone has >gotten a PNP modem working and could let me know how. > >Please post your answer to the newsgroup and also send reply to my >email address: groener@vt.edu > >Thanks, > >Markus > I ran into a similar problem a few weeks ago. My initial "quick fix" was to configure one of FreeBSD's serial devices with the port and IRQ that the modem was using under DOS. I'd boot under DOS, let the DOS PnP software configure the modem, then boot FreeBSD. This method, although tedious, worked rather well. Since then, I applied the PnP patches mentioned in some of the old mailing list postings to my copy of the 2.2-BETA kernel source, configured pnp0 to find my modem, and now the kernel does the PnP setup for me. -- Andrew Reynolds, Systems Administrator, Novanet Inc. Andrew.Reynolds@Novanet.ns.ca