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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!venus.sun.com!wnoc-sfc-news!kogwy!hosokawa From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PCMCIA modem support? Date: 1 Feb 1997 23:40:43 GMT Organization: Tokoro Laboratory, Keio University, Yokohama Japan. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5d0k9r$nto@kogwy.cc.keio.ac.jp> References: <32F2BECF.1006@academ.wvwc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: remington.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Dnas-Posting-Host: lenlen.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp X-Newsreader: gnspool [Version 1.35 Sep.1,1996 (Unix)] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34840 In article <32F2BECF.1006@academ.wvwc.edu> haught_dm@academ.wvwc.edu writes: >> I been trying to install FreeBSD by FTP through my ppp account, but my >> PCMCIA modem is not being found when booting off the boot disk. After >> Kernal configuration it shows sio1 as not being detected at 0x2f8 >> although that is where the modem should be. I tried 2.1.6-RELEASE, >> 2.2-BETA, and 3.0-970124-SNAP but got the same result. 2.2-960501 >> snapshot is said to support PCMCIA modems, should the later releases >> also support this. Has anyone gotten any PCMCIA modem to work with any >> release of FreeBSD? If so, did you have to do anything to get it to >> work? BTW my PCMCIA Ethernet card was found by FreeBSD, but I cannot >> use it -no network yet. Experimental PC-card boot.flp for 2.2-BETA can be found at ftp://jaz.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD-jp/PAO/flp/boot.flp -- HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org