From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 27 5: 1:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7665F37B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 05:01:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.interbgc.com (mail.interbgc.com [217.9.224.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF41B43ED8 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 05:01:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nike_d@cytexbg.com) Received: (qmail 45484 invoked by uid 1005); 27 Jan 2003 13:01:21 -0000 Received: from nike_d@cytexbg.com by keeper.interbgc.com by uid 1002 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (uvscan: v4.1.60/v4244. Clear:. Processed in 8.880694 secs); 27 Jan 2003 13:01:21 -0000 Received: from 217-9-229-136.cablebg.net (HELO niked) (217.9.229.136) by mail.interbgc.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2003 13:01:12 -0000 Message-ID: <007801c2c604$13a16bb0$0300000a@niked> From: "Niki Denev" To: References: <200301260858.32970.kolicz@eunet.yu> <20030126214828.A2655@ns.museum.rain.com> <1043667765.2064.13.camel@localhost> Subject: Re: Zoltrix modem Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:00:30 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4920.2300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 06:48, James Long wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:58:32AM +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote: > > > Dear FreeBSD! > > > Hope that someone on the list has > > > expirience with external Zoltrix modem > External? As in > connects-to-serial-and-obeys-standard-AT-commands-external? > > Should have no problems with that, I'd guess. With a quick google > search it seems they use Rockwell chipset, and as far as I know, > that's ok quality. > > > > named Rainbow. It should change my > > > nightmare: lucent winmodem. Maker > > That external will definitely be improvement over win/linmodem.. > > > > has a lot of data about windows com- > > > pability, but freeBSD is not even men- > > > tioned. Should I buy it? (Modem on the > > > machine? Yes, gonna be RELEASE. I have > > > no possibility to cvs or some other fancy > > > thing.) > > > > AFAIK, all external modems work with any fbsd release. Someone > correct me if you know of an exception. > > > > If it is based on the Lucent Winmodem chipset, as you > > say, it might be supported by the /usr/ports/comm/ltmdm > > port. > uh-huh... read the original message again. > > Except maybe USB External modems. I've seen such modems from Acorp and they seem to be "software" like the win/lin modems. IMHO they should be avoided if possible. Aside from the bad quality and probable lack of support/drivers they consume a signifficant amount of CPU power, something that must be taken into account for those with slower machines. Regards, Niki Denev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message