Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 04:26:15 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: imp@village.org Cc: "Glendon M. Gross" <gross@clones.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Marcin Cieslak <saper@system.pl>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Warner's PCI Modem Driver Message-ID: <200001280326.EAA15051@saturn.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <200001271646.JAA46066@harmony.village.org> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000127082044.30216B-100000@mail.clones.com>
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In article <200001271646.JAA46066@harmony.village.org> you write: >[winmodems... i don't care about those] >I just like pci modems because they perform better than their isa >counterparts and can share interrupts. They perform better?? shouldn't the isa bus' bandwidth be more than enough for the (even compressed) 56kbps of a modem? Btw even before there were `winmodems' and pci i preferred external ones, they have LEDs that tell you whats going on or whats wrong with the connection (and some also have things like a button to hang up or transfer the call to/from a connected phone...) and you can also reset them without having to reboot the entire box. And about the interrupts, well, i just got a cheap used 4-port sio card, now the mouse (trackball, actually), modem and the link to the little isdn pbx only take a single interrupt and i still have one port free for other things... Regards, -- Juergen Lock <nox.foo@jelal.kn-bremen.de> (remove dot foo from address to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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