From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 27 15:26:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F78614A11 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:26:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a055.otenet.gr [195.167.115.55]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA26446 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 01:26:23 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (qmail 8210 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Oct 1999 16:27:34 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: winmodems References: <19991026200714.A35496@dblab.ece.ntua.gr> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 27 Oct 1999 19:27:33 +0300 In-Reply-To: Yiorgos Adamopoulos's message of "Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:07:14 +0300" Message-ID: <86r9ign4zu.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yiorgos Adamopoulos writes: > do they work with -STABLE? > > ...!ieee.org!adamo The short answer is "No." The longer one is: Winmodems, are lacking some essential hardware parts, which are implemented in a special "driver" for Windows machines. This results in cheaper hardware, but it makes for a lousy solution, because: (1) it moves some of the processing load from the modem to your machine's CPU (2) it makes it hard to use the specific modem in OSes that do not know what the hell a .VXD file is all about. The "real" solution: try buying a modem that is not so tied to using Windows. -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message