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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc 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!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!pegasus.PFM-Mainz.de!forthdv.pfm-mainz.de!stephan From: stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth) Subject: Re: PCMCIA modem support? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color PL0] Lines: 25 Organization: Forth EDV Beratung+Schulung Message-ID: <E4xH5B.1q5@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> References: <32F2BECF.1006@academ.wvwc.edu> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 14:19:59 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34940 Matthew Haught (haught_dm@academ.wvwc.edu) wrote: : 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. Hi Matthew, there is no PCMCIA Support in the "normal" boot disk. You'll need the PCMCIA aware boot-disk. As far as I remember I got it from: http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO/ Regards, Stephan -- FORTH EDV Beratung + Schulung stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de Martin-Luther-Str. 55 voice: +49 6131 581072 55131 Mainz, Germany fax: +49 6131 581073