From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 8:43:42 2003 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 01DDE37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:43:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.laposte.net (mx.laposte.net [213.30.181.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E92C43FB1 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:43:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olivier.smedts@laposte.net) Received: from laposte.net (81.49.35.176) by smtp.laposte.net (6.0.053) (authenticated as olivier.smedts@laposte.net) id 3E35D8F30022A5DF; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:43:34 +0100 Message-ID: <3E492830.8030209@laposte.net> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:43:28 +0100 From: Olivier SMEDTS User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030206 X-Accept-Language: fr, fr-fr, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: US Robotics WinModem References: <1044979503.9647.4.camel@d80h149.public.uconn.edu> In-Reply-To: <1044979503.9647.4.camel@d80h149.public.uconn.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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 if the modem is connected to a COM port, it should work without any specific driver (almost all modems support standard Hayes commands). and i think that "for Windows" means "drivers and support for windows", but the hardware part should be compatible with FreeBSD. try to send commands through the com port... but I don't know for a USB version. Matt Smith wrote: > I recently ordered a modem, but the wrong one was delivered. The one I > ordered claimed to support Windows + Linux, but the one I received is a > US Robotics 56K V92 PCI FAX Modem for Windows. Before I send this back > and go through the hassle of getting the right one, does anyone know if > I can get this to work in FreeBSD? I know it's a winmodem, but it may > be less painful to try and make it work, than to return it. > > Thanks all, > -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message