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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.
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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

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HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi
hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp
hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org