From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 18 15:32:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from IMGate1.cshore.com (imgate1.cshore.com [63.237.136.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D6837B408 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:32:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sephiroth (dialup-uu-dynamic200.cshore.com [63.112.158.200]) by IMGate1.cshore.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 06DBC24033; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:51:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:36:26 -0400 From: Matthew Graybosch To: "Dave" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modems Message-Id: <20010918183626.7943d859.matthew@starbreaker.net> In-Reply-To: <006201c1406b$7c17d6e0$3300a8c0@mandy> References: <006201c1406b$7c17d6e0$3300a8c0@mandy> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.5.3 (GTK+ 1.2.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Knowing Compaq, that modem is probably a Winmodem -- meaning that it lacks a hardware controller and must depend on a proprietary driver in order to be of any use. Rip it out and get a real modem. I recommend US Robotics model 5610; it's an internal 56K PCI modem that handles v.90. ****** Matthew Graybosch [matthew@starbreaker.net] http://www.starbreaker.net :: where dreams and reality collide "Screw Sartre. Hell isn't other people. Hell is debugging other people's code." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message