Setting Up A Modem in BeOS

If you have happened upon this page and don't know what the BeOS is, you can find out by going to the Be Inc. web site at http://www.be.com/

The Be website also has a page with an excelent PPP troubleshooting guide at
http://www.be.com/support/guides/ppp.html. With another page covering the
most common user support questions at http://www.be.com/support/breakingnews/

There is also a BeOS Tip Server that has over 300 useful tweaks and hints at http://www.betips.net/

Here is a link to another page with screen captures from BeOS demonstrating
how to configure an internal modem http://www.aeoninteractive.com/misc/aaronfm/

Now, on to the fun!

Before we begin you will need to know a few things:

(look here for a list)

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have a 'winmodem' you will need to stop and attach a different modem. Most software based 'winmodems' use the Rockwell HCF chip, identified in Windows device manager as an "HCF modem enumerator". If you are using a PCI modem the following steps will probably not work for your particular hardware. If you are going to use the settings as given in the following example you will need to disable the built-in COM 2 port on the motherboard. You will need to do this from within the BIOS setup screen before booting into the BeOS.

1) Click the "Be" button
2) Click "Preferences"
3) Start the "Devices" application

4) Select "File" menu
5) Select "New Jumpered Device" submenu
6) In "Device Name", give your device a name (i.e. Modem)

7) In "Device Type", select the "Communication Device" menu
8) Select "Serial Controller" submenu
9) For the "IRQ" setting area, select 3
10) Ignore the "DMA" settings area
11) In "I/O Port Ranges", click on "New"
12) In the "Start: 0x" row, the last 00 on the right is already highlighted (see the blue trim and the shaded 00?), so press the down arrow key eight times to get a value of f8

13) Click on the 00 to the left of f8 and press the up arrow key twice to get a value of 02 (should look like 'Start: 0x |00 00 02 f8|')
14) Move down to the "Length: 0x" row and click on the 01 (at the far right) make sure you see the blue trim and the highlighted 01, and use the up arrow key seven times to get a value of 08 (should look like 'Length: 0x |00 00 00 08|')
15) If all the values were entered in correctly, you will see "End: 0x02ff", to the right of the "Start: 0x" row

16) Click "Done" (Hurrah, horay, time to save the day. :)
17) Close the "New Jumpered Device..." window (which now has the name of the device you named) and click on "Save" to save changes
18) Close "Devices" tool window

Now you should be able to configure "DialUpNetworking" (under "Preferences") to use the device you have just added.
If you want step by step instructions for DialUpNetworking go HERE

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