From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 7 15:51:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA26263 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 15:51:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.brann.org (doorman.brann.org [166.84.191.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA26126 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 15:50:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jbrann@freebie.brann.org) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by freebie.brann.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) id SAA03395; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 18:49:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jbrann) From: John Brann Message-Id: <199801072349.SAA03395@freebie.brann.org> Subject: Re: laptop built-in modem supported ? In-Reply-To: from Soren Dossing at "Jan 7, 98 03:26:54 pm" To: sauber@netcom.com (Soren Dossing) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 18:49:07 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Soren Dossing wrote... > Many new laptops have built-in modems these days. Are they supported ? Or > do you need to buy an external or pcmcia modem ? > > How do these built-in modems behave anyway ? Are they similar to internal > win-modems (which I believe are not supported) or do they appear as > connected to an internal serial port or pcmcia port ? Well, obviously, no hard and fast answer is possible, but... I have a Toshiba Portege 660 CDT which runs 2.2.5-RELEASE. It has an internal modem on COM2 (/dev/cuaa1) which worked with the basic system from the CD. > > I have read the PAO FAQ and laptop survey, but I'm still confused about > these questions. PAO is generally not necessary, since these modems operat on normal com ports, not the PCMCIA controller. > > Please reply directly since I'm not a subscriber. > > Soren > John -- Prohibit work, prohibit pay - people are dying! Situationist International slogan finger jbrann@doorman.brann.org for pgp public key