Re: pppd + winmodem on Del i7500

Andy Sparrow <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > > I've added the ltmdm driver (Lucent Winmodem) and made the corrections
> > > necessary so that it is loaded from /modules and not just in rc.d (as was
> > > recommended to me by someone who is familiar with running FBSD on this
> > > computer).
> >
> > OK, whatever. I don't have any need to do that on 4.x. Is this so you
> > can run 'pppd' at startup? On a laptop?
> 
> This was my suggestion - the makes the kld load before the kernel.  The
> ltmdm port seems to load the kld from /usr/local/etc/rc.d after the kernel
> has booted and this caused problems on the Dell i7500 - the modem wasn't
> detected properly.

Ahh, OK, I understand now - thanks for the clarification!

Regards,

AS

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