Bruce ONeel <beoneel@bluewin.ch> writes:

> Would a usb to serial adapter let me use a regular modem
> on my iBook?  Would it run ppp then?  That
> would be great.

It would, or you could just use the patch that enables the modem
serial port on the iBook; it works fine, I spent most of the last
Christmas holiday dialed up from NetBSD on my iBook.

(I should probably just commit this. Would whoever posted this patch
speak up so I can give them credit?)

        - Nathan

Index: obio.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/syssrc/sys/arch/macppc/dev/obio.c,v
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -c -r1.14 obio.c
*** obio.c      2001/06/17 19:54:47     1.14
--- obio.c      2002/06/13 04:08:02
***************
*** 133,138 ****
--- 133,146 ----
        if (PCI_PRODUCT(pa->pa_id) == PCI_PRODUCT_APPLE_PADDINGTON)
                out8(ca.ca_baseaddr + 0x37, 0x03);
  
+         /* XXX Enable internal modem (Pangea) */
+       if (PCI_PRODUCT(pa->pa_id) == PCI_PRODUCT_APPLE_PANGEA_MACIO) {
+               out8(ca.ca_baseaddr + 0x006a + 0x03, 0x04); /* set reset */
+               out8(ca.ca_baseaddr + 0x006a + 0x02, 0x04); /* power modem on */
+               out8(ca.ca_baseaddr + 0x006a + 0x03, 0x05); /* unset reset */
+        }
+ 
+ 
        for (child = OF_child(node); child; child = OF_peer(child)) {
                namelen = OF_getprop(child, "name", name, sizeof(name));
                if (namelen < 0)