From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 24 17:24:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12666 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 May 1998 17:24:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12642 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 17:24:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djv@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from djv@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04691; Sun, 24 May 1998 20:11:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from djv) From: CyberPeasant Message-Id: <199805250011.UAA04691@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: internal PnP Modem under FreeBSD 2.2.6 In-Reply-To: <3568A639.41C6@stn-atlas.com.au> from Natalia Salzberg at "May 25, 98 08:59:05 am" To: natalia@stn-atlas.com.au (Natalia Salzberg) Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 20:11:27 -0400 (EDT) Cc: djv@bedford.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: djv@bedford.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Natalia Salzberg wrote > CyberPeasant wrote: > > > > Natalia Salzberg wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > > > I have a Pentuim II 266MHz running FreeBSD 2.2.6 on one partition and > > > Win95 on another with an internal pnp modem (CommWave 336) on a isa slot Hmm. And I bet it runs just fine under windoze with that special driver that came with it. Sounds like it's a [shudder] winmodem. Better known as a lose-modem. >From the mfgr's web page; URL: http://www.multiwave.com/pd_cw336hsp.htm [INLINE] Low Power Consumption Due to Green Power Management and No Redundant High Speed Chipsets. [INLINE] With no redundant high speed chipsets such as Data Pump (or DSP), UART, SRAM and ROM found in most high speed data/fax modem board, and Green power management, power consumption is significantly reduced. That " no redundant high speed chipsets such as Data Pump (or DSP), UART, SRAM and ROM " is what a winmodem is, I believe. Those chips are "redundant" because a winmodem uses your CPU to do /all the work/ (real modems don't need software drivers). This doesn't work well in multi-tasking OSes. Winmodems aren't supported by OSes except W95 and NT. This is the first time i've seen a mfgr brag about the lack of any on-board capabilities as a swell design innovation. I can think of a way to reduce its power consumption to /exactly zero/ :) Winmodems were thought up by M$ as a field trial of a larger scheme to close off all hardware specifications and device driver interfaces, so as to strangle open source operating systems. I'm afraid you've been bitten. Maybe I'm wrong. The webpage didn't say 'winmodem' explicitly, but it said what I've quoted, and had "special device drivers" for W95 to download. Bad signs. Dave -- --== Things that suck: winmodems ==-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message