Re: newbie problem with pppd

Curtis Balvanz <curtisbalvanz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am a long-time computer hack and even had some experience with Unix awhile
ago (AiX & SVR3).

That's quite a while ago. ;-)

I got errors messages similar to the one below when trying to start the
kernel ppp daemon:

pppd[548] unrecognized option "/dev/cuad2"

My modem is an internal SoftV92 Data Fax Modem

That is not a modem. FreeBSD only supports proper modems. This smells like
an undocumented ``winmodem'' - a tiny cheapo IC stuffed on some leftover pcb
real estate on the motherboard which expects the host cpu to waste its time
talking to it and a device driver writer to tell the cpu what to tell it.
Without datasheets (and/or motivated device driver authors) this will never
work.

using COM3, which should make it "cuad2" to FreeBSD.

After the huge overhaul of the tty subsystem, the names of serial device
drivers are not quite that one-to-one mapped to the DOS way of thinking. It
is much more logical now.

I looked in the /dev folder

You mean "directory".

and there is only "cuad0" (and ttyS0).

ttyS0 sounds like a Linuxism. You probably mean ttyd0.

How do I get FreeBSD to recognize my modem?

You don't. It's not a modem.

You probably have a shoebox somewhere with "spares" ripped out of machines
which are long gone. There is guaranteed to be a proper modem in there
somewhere. :-)

- Philip

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