It seems increasing unlikely that uart will ever support the only internal hardware modem recently available in the US (PR kern/155196), so what are the chances of sio (which works in 7.x reasonably well and better with a one-line hack) being brought forward?
Lars, On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 06:58:17AM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote:> > It seems increasing unlikely that uart will ever support the only internal > hardware modem recently available in the US (PR kern/155196), so what are > the chances of sio (which works in 7.x reasonably well and better with a > one-line hack) being brought forward? >Just as good as adding device sio to your kernel config and adjusting your device.hints appropriately. You may also have to adjust /etc/ttys depending on your use but sio(4) should bring you up-to-speed. Good luck. -- Regards, (jhell) Jason Hellenthal -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 522 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20110522/dd12201a/attachment.pgp
on 22/05/2011 14:58 Lars Eighner said the following:> > It seems increasing unlikely that uart will ever support the only internal > hardware modem recently available in the US (PR kern/155196)What's up with the dramatic tone? I haven't seen this issue being actively discussed (or being discussed at all until now). -- Andriy Gapon
On May 22, 2011, at 4:58 AM, Lars Eighner wrote:> > It seems increasing unlikely that uart will ever support the only internal > hardware modem recently available in the US (PR kern/155196), so what are > the chances of sio (which works in 7.x reasonably well and better with a > one-line hack) being brought forward?The PR states that uart(4) basically works, but that "reconnecting on demand" doesn't. What makes you think this is a problem with uart(4) and not with the TTY overhaul? -- Marcel Moolenaar marcel@xcllnt.net
On 5/22/2011 7:58 AM, Lars Eighner wrote:> > It seems increasing unlikely that uart will ever support the only internal > hardware modem recently available in the US (PR kern/155196), so what are > the chances of sio (which works in 7.x reasonably well and better with a > one-line hack) being brought forward?I have a number of these. The modem is indeed identified as uart2: <Non-standard ns8250 class UART with FIFOs> port 0xe500-0xe507 irq 10 at device 14.0 on pci0 uart2: [FILTER] uart2@pci0:0:14:0: class=0x070002 card=0x00d312b9 chip=0x100812b9 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = '3COM Corp, Modem Division (Formerly US Robotics)' device = 'USR5610B (0005610-02) 56K Performance Pro Modem (PCI Internal) (USR5610B)' class = simple comms subclass = UART cap 01[dc] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D2 D3 current D0 But other than that, it seems to work just fine for my setup which is dial backup for a pppoe site. Can you post details of your ppp.conf setup and the steps needed to illustrate the problem ? ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/