ppp setup

[marcelo cardoso martinelli]

--- fbsd_user <fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com> wrote:
> You are making an assumption that FBSD and windows  look at the
> modem the same way, and you are wrong in that assumption. FBSD and
> windows are 2 very different OS and I no way handle PCI devices and
> IRQ's the same way.
> 
> I beat I know your problem. Since your PC is first window box you
> bought winmodem for it because they are so cheap. The reason
> winmodems are so cheap is because they are missing onboard
> controllers  and DPC chips. You have to load special modems software
> drivers which perform those function in software. FBSD does not work
> with winmodems and if you look in /var/run/dmesg.boot you will see
> an message for pci device (unknown)  thats your winmodem.
> There is nothing wrong with user ppp yet it has not really been able
> to do any thing because the device you told it to use was never
> found at boot time.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: marcelo cardoso martinelli
> [mailto:marcelocm70-lists at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:35 PM
> To: fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com
> Subject: RE: ppp setup
> 
> 
> --- fbsd_user <fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com> wrote:
> > How do you know that your modem is connected to com4?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of marcelo
> > cardoso martinelli
> > Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 10:09 AM
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: ppp setup
> >
> > i made a clean install of freebsd 5.0-release in my home machine
> and
> > i
> > am having trouble setting up my box for dial-up access to the
> > internet.
> >
> > my modem is connected to com4 but my dmesg entry shows that the
> > kernel
> > is only tracking up to com2. i tried looking at my kernel
> > configuration
> > file but it is only showing one line for serial devices (device
> > sio).
> > how can i get around this?
> >
> > i remember that setting it up in the 4.x series was much easier.
> >
> > TIA.
> 
> because my system is a dual-boot setup (freebsd and winxp) and i was
> able to extract the information from winxp.
> 
> BTW, i only have a dual-boot box because my wife can't handle bsd
> and i
> don't have the time to teach her. if it was up to me i'd be using
> freebsd only.
> 

two things: first, no my modem is not a winmodem, and i would think
that both OSes would access the modem using the same com port. i had
never observed that one os - be it linux, freebsd or windows - would
access the same piece of hardware differently. either way, but my modem
doesn't exist in /dev/cuaa0 or /dev/cuaa1, that's for sure.

i haven't been able to work on my home box over the past couple days
but one hint i got was to edit /boot/device.hints which may solve the
problem.

one piece of advice, please remember to include Cc the mailing list
when you reply to a post. i don't think the idea of a mailing list is
to start private conversations.

thanks for the help.