From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 12:27:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 674B4153F2; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 12:27:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA40000; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 15:27:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 15:27:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Ugen Antsilevitch Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI modems do not work??? In-Reply-To: <37D2C371.1835A96B@xonix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote: > 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?:)))) If you want one, then you have to write one. No one who knows how to do that wants to support something like that. I *think* that the way that modems are going is not going to eliminate regular modems (and it's _certainly_ not done that yet). > --Ugen > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@mat.net | communications topic, C programming, Unix and 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | carpentry. It's all in the design! Greenbelt, MD 20770 | picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD/i386 (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD/Alpha ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message