Toshiba Tecra 8000, Lucent Modem, FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, and ltmdm-1.4_5.tgz

[Sean Welch]

Hi, Ian!

I run a Dell Inspiron 8000 so I don't think the bios rev is going to
help you much.  ;-)

I'm able to get my modem to work with a fresh install and a GENERIC
kernel.

I saw that this fellow had responded to you and it seems he has more
apropos info:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=125345+0+archive/2004/freebsd-mobile/20040425.freebsd-mobile

This indicates that your hardware setup is somewhat unique and the
port will not work without some modification.

By comparison, my modem shows up on the PCI bus.

Just for clarification, it is perfectly possible to load kernel
modules that don't have anything to do with your system
hardware/setup and thus don't do anything.

Good luck -- I hope you can get it working soon!

Sean

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:53:07AM +0100, Ian F. Brunell wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thankyou for your comments and encouragement. I downloaded ltmdm-1.4.tgz 
> from the port maintainer's web-site and installed it with the ports 
> system. It appears to install with one warning:
> 
> Object directory not changed from original 
> /usr/ports/comms/ltmdm/work/sys/modules/ltmdm
> 
> Upon rebooting the modem is not detected (no mention in "dmesg | grep 
> ltmdm") but the ltmdm module is loaded. I have tried:
> 
> 1) re-configuring the kernel with different sio options
> 2) re-installing the system and installing the port with the GENERIC 
> kernel.
> 3) playing around with the laptop's BIOS settings in conjunction with (1).
> 
> All to no avail. I have a couple of questions though:
> 1) what version of the BIOS are you using? I have version 9.30 and 
> perhaps this is significant?
> 2) do you have any particular options enabled in your kernel 
> configuration file?
> 
> My next move will be to contact the port maintainer.
> 
> Thanks once again,
> 
> Ian.-
>