From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 5 19:23:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tinker.exit.com (tinker.exit.com [206.223.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9942437B4C5 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 19:23:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eA63Nrm03667; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 19:23:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) id eA63NnN10511; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 19:23:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <200011060323.eA63NnN10511@realtime.exit.com> Subject: Re: Supporting "winmodems" (was: PCI Modems Not Shown As Supported Hardware) In-Reply-To: <20001105114757.A307@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 5, 2000 11:47:58 am" To: Greg Lehey Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 19:23:49 -0800 (PST) Cc: Warner Losh , Antony T Curtis , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: frank@exit.com Organization: Exit Consulting X-Copyright0: Copyright 2000 Frank Mayhar. All Rights Reserved. X-Copyright1: Permission granted for electronic reproduction as Usenet News or email only. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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