From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jul 22 19:19:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A4E37B41B for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:19:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6N2KPI04855; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:20:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200107230220.f6N2KPI04855@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: neal@nelsonnet.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modem Selection In-reply-to: Your message of "22 Jul 2001 19:14:38 PDT." <20010723021438.13595.cpmta@c000.snv.cp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:20:25 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I need to get myself a new modem and I was wondering if 4.3-stable supports U > SB modems? I don't want to spend too much, so it would have to be a no brand > modem. You're already risking a lot here. 8) Buy a decent serial modem. 8) > Is there a USB modem standard or does there need to be a specific driver for > the modem? There is a standard, but the cheap modems typically don't follow it. They're typically USB "winmodems", ie. the DSP is done on the host, and the "modem" is just a codec and line interfacee. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message