From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 5 18:33: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from netsrvr.ami.com.au (netsrvr.ami.com.au [203.55.31.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B4837B479 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:32:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from emu.os2.ami.com.au (IDENT:root@c0s19.ami.com.au [203.55.31.84]) by netsrvr.ami.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01985 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:32:42 +0800 Received: from possum.os2.ami.com.au (IDENT:summer@possum.os2.ami.com.au [192.168.1.6]) by emu.os2.ami.com.au (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id eA62WeZ31852 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:32:40 +0800 Message-Id: <200011060232.eA62WeZ31852@emu.os2.ami.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.orG Subject: Re: Supporting "winmodems" (was: PCI Modems Not Shown As Supported Hardware) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Nov 2000 11:47:58 +1100." <20001105114757.A307@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 10:34:52 +0800 From: John Summerfield Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 :-) Someone else did it. There are drivers for Linux for some winmodems, though I don't know where. Porting them to FreeBSD ought not be so difficult. Try a search at altavista for linmodem To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message