From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Sep 27 9:51:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from isds.duke.edu (davinci.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3634337B42C for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:51:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from feta.isds.duke.edu (feta.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.76]) by isds.duke.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22329; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:51:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from sto@localhost) by feta.isds.duke.edu (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8RGpj655160; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:51:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from sto) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:51:41 -0400 From: "Sean O'Connell" To: Mark Evenson Cc: FreeBSD mobile Subject: Re: pccard modem recommendations (was Card Recommendations) Message-ID: <20000927125141.A55141@stat.Duke.EDU> Reply-To: "Sean O'Connell" Mail-Followup-To: Sean O'Connell , Mark Evenson , FreeBSD mobile References: <39D122D1.5C384A20@oreilly.com> <20000927003711.D10358@stat.Duke.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from evenson@panix.com on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:46:39PM -0400 X-Organization: Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Evenson stated: : "Sean O'Connell" writes: : : [...] : > Another thing to find put out there would be good pccard modems (since : > most newer notebooks come with the evil software modem). : [...] : : Here, here! : : I could really use a list of pccard modems that work with FreeBSD 4.1 : STABLE. It seems that some companies (IBM reselling the 3COM 3CXM356) are : putting winmodems on pccards! Took me a while to figure that one out. . . I have had good luck with the Zoomtel Model 2975. Here is the relevant entry from /etc/defaults/pccard.conf ... It is ~ 80 - 90 US dollars. Hopefully, it is still available. # Zoom 56K modem # Freezes your system entirely if you don't have the reset.. card "Zoom Telephonics, Inc." "PCMCIA 56K LT DataFax" config 0x1f "sio" ? reset 1000 But whatever you do ... don't by the Model 3000 as this will probe as a UART 16450 and then lock your machine solid :( S ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message