Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 02:51:21 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> Cc: <chip@wiegand.org>, <james@dragonmount.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Newbie who is fed up with windows! [winmodem, dmesg] Message-ID: <20020323024728.X59417-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <F136E6oX341bXS0FhKk0001efc0@hotmail.com>
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On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Charles Burns wrote: [snip] > If the modem is, in fact, a WinModem (which, BTW, means that the modem > functions-the modulation and demodulation-are done by your CPU instead of > the modem itself) it may work in Linux. Linux may also be a better choice > for a new Unix user, due to the fact that there are severl distributions of > Linux that are more user friendly that will more smoothly ease you into the > Unix way of doing things, which is almost always different. > There are great instructions about this at www.linmodems.org [snip] Please copy/paste the output of the command "dmesg -a > dmesg.out" as this file may log some sort of PnP recognition of the hardware, for all we know. For example, here is my modem (which I have yet to use): sio4: configured irq 11 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio4: <SupraExpress 56i Sp> at port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 11 on isa0 sio4: type 16550A -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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