From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 27 16:15:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB5D37B423 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 16:15:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA40646; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:45:06 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:45:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Josh Paetzel Cc: "Michael D. Hobgood" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware Support Message-ID: <20000828084505.A38394@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <00082703072900.06395@Brightstar> <008a01c0105b$f5116480$cd430ace@mark8> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <008a01c0105b$f5116480$cd430ace@mark8>; from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net on Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 02:21:09PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Sunday, 27 August 2000 at 14:21:09 -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Your mailer mutilates the text. > On Sunday, August 27, 2000 3:04 AM, "Michael D. Hobgood" wrote: >> Several months ago I purchase FreeBSD v3.4. Unfortunately, it did >> not support PCI modems. Though I use Linux with an Actiontec PCI >> modem, I would still like to use FreeBSD. I have been trying to >> find out if the latest version supports PCI modems, but have been >> unable to get a definitive yes or no. Would you be so kind as to >> let me know? > > FreeBSD doesn't support winmodems. Most PCI modems are winmodems > and therefore are not supported. > > To be a bit more verbose, winmodems are really half a modem. > Windows emulates the rest of the hardware in software. No one will > give the FreeBSD team the specs of the chipset used, so therefore > they are unable to duplicate this. It's not that simple. Since there's support for them in Linux, we can get the code. But there are also a number of different chipsets. The real issue is that nobody on the FreeBSD team wants to touch them, which is a pity really, since they're obviously on the increase. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message