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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc: Antony T Curtis <antony@abacus.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Supporting "winmodems" (was: PCI Modems Not Shown As Supported Hardware)
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On Thursday,  2 November 2000 at 10:04:08 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <3A013CF9.E1CC203A@abacus.co.uk> Antony T Curtis writes:
>> What about Lucent-based "controllerless" modems? AFAIK, there is support
>> for this chip is in other non-doze platforms. Would anyone know where to
>> start with it?
>
> No.  Those weon't work.  IF there are drivers, someone else can port
> them.

I'm afraid it won't be long before these are the only modems available
for laptops.  I even accidentally bought on in PCMCIA format a couple
of weeks ago; nothing in the documentation indicated that it was a
"winmodem".  While I disagree with the idea of "winmodems", I think
we're going to have to support them sooner or later.  I do agree that
"someone else" can do it, though :-)

Greg
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