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

"Timothy R. Butler" <[email protected]> Tue, 09 Dec 2003 23:27:05 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.kde.cafe
Organization	Universal Networks
Message-ID	<1071034025.4607.0.camel@localhost>

> 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.

  Maybe FreeBSD has a strange way of handling this?

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

  Well, this wasn't GNU/Linux, though.

  -Tim

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