Do you have a serial port on your computer?
There's a 9 pin connector (nothing attached) that I'm not sure what it's for, a printer port, and mouse and keyboard connectors, otherwise they are all USB ports. (Hardware is NOT my specialty. This is a new Dell Dimension 3000, if that helps any.)
If you do, somewhere in dmesg it should be telling you that your modem was moved to a different port. Below is the out put from my computer:
donaldj ==> dmesg |grep "^sio" sio0: <3COM PCI FaxModem> port 0x1490-0x1497 irq 3 at device 10.0 on pci0 sio0: moving to sio4 sio4: type 16550A sio0: <Standard PC COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled
This remains all that dmesg shows:
# dmesg |grep "^sio"
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
I'm starting to think that my modem (US Robotics that I salvaged from an old HP I had) isn't detected by FreeBSD on boot. If so, would I be better off getting a new modem that might be recognized? It's a 56k fax modem, IIRC what WinXP was telling me. (I tried to save $20 by not buying a modem installed by Dell, and I knew I was going to regret it...)
Also, look at /dev for more than cuaa0
donaldj ==> ll /dev | grep cua crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 240, 128 Jan 1 09:55 cuaa0 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 240, 132 Jan 1 09:55 cuaa4 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 239, 160 Jan 1 09:55 cuaia0 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 239, 164 Jan 1 09:55 cuaia4 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 239, 192 Jan 1 09:55 cuala0 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 239, 196 Jan 1 09:55 cuala4
# ls -l /dev/ | fgrep cua
crw-rw---- 1 uucp uucp 237, 128 Jan 5 10:04 cuaa0
crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 236, 160 Jan 5 09:42 cuaia0
crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 236, 192 Jan 5 09:42 cuala0
I'm not sure what that tells me. Should I be telling mgetty to use cuaia0 or cuala0?
(Is there a good way to test a new /etc/ttys and mgetty config w/o doing a full reboot?)
TjL
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