From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 5 19:11:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from soup.thpoon.com (cr103675-a.bloor1.on.wave.home.com [24.114.152.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DC4137B66C for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 19:11:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 67855 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2000 02:11:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tea.thpoon.com) (mail@192.168.1.2) by cr103675-a.bloor1.on.wave.home.com with SMTP; 6 Oct 2000 02:11:31 -0000 Received: from antipode by tea.thpoon.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13hMyx-0001R5-00 for ; Thu, 05 Oct 2000 22:11:31 -0400 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lucent modems question References: <20001004223929.B32669@hades.hell.gr> From: Arcady Genkin X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: thpoon.com Mail-Copies-To: never Date: 05 Oct 2000 22:11:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20001004223929.B32669@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: <87em1uzpkc.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > Lucent seems to have released a winmodem driver for linux. > > Oh. Since this was brought up. Has anyone user such a beast on Linux. > I am just curious to see if the driver trying to cope with the crippled > Winmodem beast, is as resource hungry as it seems to be on Windows. One > would expect that emulating a "real" modem in the driver would cost a > few extra CPU cycles, or memory, or other system resources. I have it on my Thinkpad 240 laptop. In fact, this is the only reason keeping me from installing FreeBSD there. ;^( I have only used the modem to call in a BBS, but I haven't noticed any abnormalities with CPU load. -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message