Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 19:23:49 -0800 (PST) From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Antony T Curtis <antony@abacus.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supporting "winmodems" (was: PCI Modems Not Shown As Supported Hardware) Message-ID: <200011060323.eA63NnN10511@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <20001105114757.A307@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 5, 2000 11:47:58 am"
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Greg Lehey wrote: > 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 :-) My Dell laptop came with one preinstalled. I didn't know it was a winmodem until it didn't work when I installed FreeBSD and called tech support. It would be nice to have this support. What I mainly want to do, though, is shoot the guy that invented them. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://store.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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