From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 12:27:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from celery.dragondata.com (celery.dragondata.com [205.253.12.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ACC214F56; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 12:27:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toasty@celery.dragondata.com) Received: (from toasty@localhost) by celery.dragondata.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA30398; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 14:27:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from toasty) From: Kevin Day Message-Id: <199909051927.OAA30398@celery.dragondata.com> Subject: Re: PCI modems do not work??? To: ugen@xonix.com (Ugen Antsilevitch) Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 14:27:33 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <37D2C371.1835A96B@xonix.com> from "Ugen Antsilevitch" at Sep 05, 1999 03:24:33 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the > recent traffic in freebsd-questions. > It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently > our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am wrong here - > kick me and ignore the rest of the message. > If i am right - this really has to be fixed and soon. There aren't many ISA > 56K modems out there that aren't winmodems. On my last search everything that > was 56K was divided about 80% winmodems and 20% PCI modems (with UART). > I don't think for someone with understanding of low level drivers implementing > this should be too hard? After all all the difference AFAIK is in how interrupts > are delivered from a device. It still has the same ports, doesn't it? > > If this is not fixed soon FreeBSD users won't be able to get a modem working > at all... and then how the hell is this going to be a network system?:)))) > --Ugen > > I'm actually going to look at doing this tommorow, but I have to admit the sio driver isn't really going to like doing this. Has anyone looked at this before and could possibly give any suggestions as to how I should begin this? Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message