From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 3 14: 9: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 312FF37B77C for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 14:08:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12QyHE-000MkK-00; Fri, 03 Mar 2000 20:02:20 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12QyHE-0002bK-00; Fri, 03 Mar 2000 20:02:20 +0000 Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 20:02:20 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: "Ash, Uriel" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'm looking for a modem\ Message-ID: <20000303200220.F16946@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ash, Uriel wrote: > I have just recently installed FreeBSd on my system at home and > currently have a Dell Dimension XPS with 196 Meg RAM and a MDP3990 > telephony PCI winmodem from Aztech. I read on the questions yesterday > that winmodems are not really configurable with FreeBSD. I thereore > need to buy another modem. Are there any in particular that you > suggest??? I think almost any external modem will work (I use a cheap Tashika modem). If the price isn't important, a 3COM/USR would probably be the best choice. > I have no preference for either internal or external. External. I think a lot of internal models are secretly Winmodems without telling you so. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message