Subject: Re: RDI SparcBook modem?
To: Paul B Dokas <dokas@cs.umn.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/03/1998 22:20:08
I asked a similar question a while back and Klaus Klein replied:
On 12 May 1998, Klaus Klein wrote:
> David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com> writes:
>
> > Just installed 1.3.1 onto a PowerLite-110 here and its looking
> > pretty good. Does anyone know if its posible to use on the
> > onboard modem?
>
> This should work out-of-the-box, just use `select-modem' at the OBP
> and access it via /dev/ttyb.
>
David/absolute
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On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Paul B Dokas wrote:
> I've got access to an RDI SparcBook (a sparc 5'ish machine in a *heavy*
> laptop format) which works wonderfully with NetBSD. However, I discovered
> one small problem when I took this boat anchor on the road:
>
> I had intended on using the internal modem to dialup my work to check
> email, etc. However, when I attempted to use the modem, I quickly discovered
> that the kernel knew *nothing* about it at all (it was not configured).
> Thus dialing up anything was not possible.
>
> Now, I could reinstall this machine with Slowlaris and probably figure
> out where the modem attaches, but I'd really hate to loose the OS as it's
> currently installed. So I'm asking here: does anyone know how to get
> the kernel (I'm running current) to config that internal modem? I've
> tried adding zs2 in the same way as zs0 and zs1, but that didn't work.
>
> Paul
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