Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 01:04:00 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modems ... :) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980215010017.4375E-100000@luke.cpl.net> In-Reply-To: <19980215173203.42715@freebie.lemis.com>
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> What if they have one already? > > We need to understand that most of the world still uses Microsoft. > They buy their hardware based on whether they can use it with > Microsoft. Often the hardware is supplied. 9 times out of 10, if > somebody wants to buy a winmodem and finds that it doesn't work with > FreeBSD, they'll ditch FreeBSD, not the winmodem. Yeah.. but I think a majority of people are smart enough to NOT buy a winmodem, if given the choice. Of course there are vendors who probably supply this modem and the person doesnt know about it before hand.. But if a driver could be written for FreeBSD for this modem, it probably should be, as much as I hate it. :) > Having said that, of course I agree with you. Winmodems are junk. > But that's not the issue, and I maintain that it *is* possible to get > them to work with FreeBSD. Recall that for a long time we took a > similar stance on ATAPI CD-ROMs. Does a Winmodem work on anything OTHER than Win95? I think its sad a vendor needs to make a piece of hardware for a specific OS, just to cut costs on an already el cheapo device... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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