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From: mcampbel@erols.com (M. Campbell or Lee Cremeans )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help Installing via FTP
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 17:34:18 GMT
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>Allen Harris wrote:
>> I am trying to install FreeBSD over a PPP dialup connection.  I have a
>> Motorola ModemSurfer 28.8 modem on COM2 (the jumpers are set and PnP
>> disabled).  When I get to the PPP part of the install (after selecting

>You will need to reconfigure the modem to be on COM1 or it won't work. 
>This bug was fixed recently for the upcoming 2.2 release, ongoing
>snapshots for which may be found on 22gamma.freebsd.org, and in the
>recent 3.0-SNAP on ftp.freebsd.org if for some reason you cannot switch
>your modem to COM1.

Or you can disable COM1 in the userconfig.  That's what I did, and it
worked.

Lee C.