dial up

["Darren M. Crotchett" <backdoc@netdoor.com>]

Thank you Nick and Larry.  I moved the jumper to com 2 and OBSD found it
right away (on boot).  I was able to dial up via the term prompt in ppp.  I
am well on my way to my nat/firewall/router goal.

I want offer a small explanation of why it might appear that I ignored your
first suggestion to change the port address, Larry.  It's because I didn't
understand that changing com ports did that.  It was your explanation, Nick,
that led me to figuring it out.  So, thanks again to both of you.

Darren

----- Original Message -----
From: Laurence Moore <lmoore@starwon.com.au>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: dial up


>
>
> Darren wrote:
>
>
> > It seems pretty clear to me that OBSD is having problems detecting the
modem
> > at boot.  I tried setting the jumpers alternatively to irq's 2, 5 and 7.
It
> > was already set to 3.  And, 4 was/is being used by pccom0.  BTW, the
modem
> > is jumpered to COM4.
> >
>
> I had a quick gander at the kernel (GENERIC). It appears that pccom3 is
> not enabled by default. Comments are their explaining why.
>
> > If you are booting with new hardware (not PnP), and if its settings
don't
> > conflict with existing hardware, shouldn't OBSD find it without special
> > configuration?  I don't mind doing my homework on this, but I'm not sure
> > what man page to read next.
> >
>
> This is debendant on the kernel as they are all compiled in.
>
> I would suggest re-configuring your card to I/O 0x3e8 with IRQ 5 otherwise
compile a new kernel with the values you desire for pccom4.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Larry
>
>