From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 15 20: 0:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.whitey.at (chello212186056066.12.vie.surfer.at [212.186.56.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23CCA37B404 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 20:00:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 15310 invoked from network); 16 Feb 2002 04:03:49 -0000 Received: from void.whitey.at (HELO void.whitey.at.) (192.168.1.1) by 0 with SMTP; 16 Feb 2002 04:03:49 -0000 Subject: Re: soft modem list or list of modem that works with freebsd From: Christian Weihs To: pirat Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020216111013.A8836@radwaste.oaep.go.th> References: <20020216111013.A8836@radwaste.oaep.go.th> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.1 Date: 16 Feb 2002 05:02:00 +0100 Message-Id: <1013832120.2050.89.camel@void.whitey.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Am Sa , 2002-02-16 um 05.10 schrieb pirat: Softmodems are - if I am right - WinModems. I don't think there are drivers for UN*X, just for Windoze. But luckily, nearly every serial or USB modem should work with FreeBSD. cheers Christian > hi sirs, > > really apologize once more time to the list. i started up my private interest website about FreeBSD in Thailand. since then there are about 2000 visitors to my site, almost all of them are newbies. > > they asked me, and complained that my answer is wrong, how to connect to the internet by freebsd box. > > i, finally after a long thread of q&a, just give them the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf that i use for connecting to my isp, and sure i do not give my authkey+authname but tell them what is what. > > the feed back is that, oh it does not work. even i tell them to simply entering interactive mode and do ath, atz, at&f, atdt99999999 and so on. > > i wonder that it is likely that they are using the modem that is one of softmodem. do any of you here have a list of such softmodem ? or even the list of modem that works fine with FreeBSD. > > if any of you here are interested in answering to thai's freebsd newbies please goto http://www.thai.net/makham or http://isag38.ce.kmitl.ac.th/~makhamus and there you'll find a link to ThaiBSD board. > > once again apologize me and please cc to me your answers. > > thanks in advance. > > with best regards, > psr > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message