Re: OfB.biz: Desktop FreeBSD Part 1: Installation

Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> What follows is a tutorial aimed specifically at the ordinary desktop
> user interested in getting started with FreeBSD. Ed provides an easy to
> understand guide through FreeBSD's Sysinstall installer in part one of
> this series. 
> 
>   http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=272

Interesting:

<<
6. Modem setup -- Usually this means selecting the ppp0 option for this purpose. You must 
know where your hardware believes the modem is, probably one of four "COMM" ports,
 >>

With a PCI modem this is simply WRONG.

Actually, it was ALWAYS wrong.  The COM? ports are assigned in SOFTWARE, it is just that 
on a PC starting with DOS, that there were default hardware addresses for them.

Now with PCI, there aren't default hardware addresses unless you have legacy (non-PCI) 
serial ports.  And, a PCI internal modem is not a legacy serial port.

Linux now (if it works) automatically assigns your modem to COM5 which is ttyS4.

--
JRT


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