From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 18 05:28:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9243816A4CF for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 05:28:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from jagor.srce.hr (jagor.srce.hr [161.53.2.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6367643D49 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 05:27:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mkrkac@public.srce.hr) Received: from public.srce.hr (cmung357.cmu.carnet.hr [193.198.129.103]) by jagor.srce.hr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0IDRn43012476 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:27:50 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <400A89CC.1060200@public.srce.hr> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:27:40 +0100 From: Marin Krkac User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter at jagor.srce.hr Subject: What about controllerless "hardware" modems? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:28:04 -0000 I have an internal "hardware" modem. When I bought it they said it was a hardware modem and it said so on the box too. It has an Intel/Ambient chipset, or more precisely, as the windows driver says, Intel 536ep. But I found out just a few days ago that it's not actually a real hardware modem. It has a DSP but it's controllerless - that part is in software. It's also called a HAM modem (a Host Accelerated Modem). There is a linux driver but I think it's only partially open-source. Is there any chance this modem might work under FreeBSD? Buying a new modem could be an option, but now that I've found out this "hardware" modem isn't exactly what I thought it would be, I'm confused. Besides soft modems, the only cheaper models I could buy are all contorollerless. There are some cheaper external models, but it says that they are also built around the Intel/Ambient chipset, so I don't see how they could be any better, even though they're external (that's really confusing me - so far I thought that there was no way you could go wrong with an external modem). The only thing that's left are the expensive models, like US Robotics. But they are a little too expensive for me, and I really don't see a point in running FreeBSD without a modem. Any advice would be really appreciated. Thanks.