Hi,

Thanks to Kevin P. Neal for his help.  Yes, it seems my modem is a Winmodem.  I searched "Winmodem" in the NetBSD website home page search box and got no hits.  I then found some information about Winmodems at www.linmodems.org.  Perhaps a word about Winmodems could be added to the NetBSD i386 pages and the equipment compatibility pages so that other NetBSD newbies will be saved from stumbling into this problem.  Thanks again, Kevin.

Tom

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On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:08:41  
 Kevin P. Neal wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:21:36AM -0400, Thomas Miller wrote:
>> Hi,
>
>Hello there. 
> 
>> Please help me get my modem working under NetBSD-1.5.  The modem works under Windows98 on COM4 and IRQ 3.  I made a NetBSD kernel with support for com3 enabled on irq 3 (and with com1 commented out since com1 is set to irq3 in GENERIC).  The new kernel finds what I think is the modem, and it also finds com0 per the following dmesg lines:
>> 
>> unknown vendor 0x134d product 0x7890 (miscellaneous communications, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 19 function 0 not configured
>
>Unless I miss my guess, this is your non-functional modem. 
> 
>> com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
>
>That looks like a normal serial port.
> 
>> The kernel does not, however, find the com3 driver.  I think I need to enable tty03 in /etc/ttys before com3 will show up in dmesg.  If so, what should the com3 line say?  Is there anything else required for com3 to appear properly configured in dmesg?
>
>The settings in /etc/ttys have nothing to do with what the kernel finds
>at boot. When the kernel is printing out it's messages about what hardware
>it finds it hasn't mounted the root filesystem yet. 
>
>Is your modem a "WinModem"? WinModems are really inexpensive because they
>aren't really so much modems as "pci-pots adaptors" (my term, sorry). The
>real work is done by software running on Windows. That software hasn't
>been ported or written for NetBSD, so WinModem users are out of luck. 
>
>Of course, if your modem isn't a WinModem then you can ignore most of
>what I just said.
>-- 
>Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/
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