From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 7 16: 4: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38C9C37B400 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 16:04:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FD1643E3B for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 16:03:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yid@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 23473 invoked by uid 417); 7 Jul 2002 23:03:59 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2002 23:03:59 -0000 Received: from unknown ([216.194.6.0]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Sun, 07 Jul 2002 17:03:57 -0600 Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 19:02:19 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: "Faissal ABDALLAH" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pci internal modems. Message-Id: <20020707190219.2cedbc9b.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <000001c2259b$a81e1ea0$b8befac1@faysal> References: <000001c2259b$a81e1ea0$b8befac1@faysal> Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 11:49:23 +0200 "Faissal ABDALLAH" wrote: > i'm trying to configure my internet connection through an internal MicroLink > 56k PCI HSF EU modem but it seems that it's not configured in my You need to get a "hardware modem" or "controller modem" rather than a "winmodem" or software-modem. A few internal modems today, like US Robotics Performance Pro, fit that description. Also many old internal modems work fine. Otherwise, you can't go wrong with an external modem. FreeBSD supports both serial and USB external modems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message