From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 4 17:17:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C5D637B401 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 17:17:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f151Gkg00529; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:16:49 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <027501c08f11$64e7c220$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: Cc: "JAKE RIVERA" , References: <000a01c08ea4$31cd6920$2fa0b3c7@s9c8y1> <00fd01c08ea9$f52da380$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010204164231.X91447@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Subject: Re: Problem with modem in laptop Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:17:12 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Strange. I always thought that most every PCMCIA modem was a "real" > modem. At least, I have never seen one that was not. Go into > /etc/defaults/pccard.conf to look for a gizzilion ones that work with > FreeBSD. If there are any distributors for most of those in Australia they sure don't want to be known. Zircom is by far the most aggressive marketer of PCMCIA stuff here although a few others are available if one yells loudly enough. .I have called the distributors I'm aware of for PCMCIA modems listed & they all claimed their products are suitable for Win98 only. I would have expected 3-com / USR to work, however the agents claim otherwise. If, as the pcccard.conf file suggests, the agents for things like the 3-com / USR / IBM / Toshiba ones that are readily available certainly need a swift kick to the nether regions. I notice a few listings for Nokia GSM products however ..... I defy anyone to get those disasters working in ANY unix ..... or even WinNT / Win2000. After battling the company over this issue for months even the techno-nerds in Finland finally admitted they have never tested their rubbish in anything but Win98. > > The built-in modems in notebook PCs, however, are pretty much without > exception, WinModems. (Which was always fun for those few who ran NT > on their notebooks, 'cause they generally don't run under NT either.) > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message