At 12:30 PM 2/23/98 -0500, Brad Colbert wrote:
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>   Hi folks,
>
>   I've been having a problem getting my Zoom 56K flex PNP modem recognized
>   and was wondering if there was a searchable archive of the mail lists?
>
>   I was hoping that someone has solved this problem.
>
>   Thanks greatly,
>
>   Brad
>
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Sounds like you're having one of the problems that I was having when I
installed NetBSD a few weeks ago.  This problem was pretty easy to solve.

Basically, what needs to happen is that you need to tie down the IRQ that
your modem uses by disabling PNP on your modem card and setting the IRQ
manually.  

What I had to do to get a stable system (I'm out of slots and almost out of
IRQs because I have two SCSI cards and two sound cards in my system) is to
disable the COM2 port in my bios and set my modem to use the IRQ that COM2
used (IRQ3, base address 02F8).  NetBSD was pretty happy after that.

Needless to say, one of the casualties of all of my IRQ tweaking was Win95
because plug-and-pray couldn't figure out all of the IRQ conflicts after I
tweaked some of them manually.  I ended up having to reinstall Win95 from
scratch, but hopefully you won't have that problem.  (that part didn't
matter too much though,  I only use Win95 for playing games).

-Robert