From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 27 19:34: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (blaubaer.kn-bremen.de [195.37.179.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84FA715790 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:34:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: from saturn.kn-bremen.de (uucp@localhost) by blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with UUCP id EAA30292; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 04:29:11 +0100 Received: (from nox@localhost) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.9.3/8.8.5) id EAA15051; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 04:26:15 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 04:26:15 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock Message-Id: <200001280326.EAA15051@saturn.kn-bremen.de> To: imp@village.org Subject: Re: Warner's PCI Modem Driver X-Newsgroups: local.list.freebsd.stable In-Reply-To: <200001271646.JAA46066@harmony.village.org> References: Organization: home Cc: "Glendon M. Gross" , "Rodney W. Grimes" , Marcin Cieslak , "Jason C. Wells" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 (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