Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 16:56:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Roney Monte (NetCom)" <rymmonte@ix.netcom.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: LT Winmodem Message-ID: <19981004165642.C2545@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <003301bdef76$94733700$fe252399@pavilion>; from Roney Monte (NetCom) on Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 02:08:28AM -0700 References: <003301bdef76$94733700$fe252399@pavilion>
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On Sunday, 4 October 1998 at 2:08:28 -0700, Roney Monte (NetCom) wrote: > And what about a modem called LT-winmodem (Lucend Tech) ? > > I know it's PnP works fine under win, but the FreeBSD do not recognize it. I > have already tried the IO address and the IRQ given in "win > control-panel/system". > > It reports: IO=0x1400 and IRQ=3. > FreeBSD do not find it. "Winmodems" lose. They substitute CPU power for hardware, which means that they can't work with an operating system: they would need to block interrupts when they're running. Considering that the price of a good modem is so low, nobody can be bothered trying to get such broken hardware to work under FreeBSD. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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