From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 14 17:33:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA27583 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:33:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sns.com (jack.sns.com [199.35.183.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA27564 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:33:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from speedy by mail.sns.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0wGwAS-000Q2ZC; Mon, 14 Apr 97 17:32 PDT Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970414181803.0081a660@mail.sns.com> X-Sender: ludwigp@mail.sns.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 18:32:09 -0700 To: "Michael Waldrop" , From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: US ROBOTICS WINMODEM Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 05:16 AM 4/14/97 -0400, Michael Waldrop wrote: >Good morning, > > Is there now or in the future support for the internal US Robotics >Sportster Winmodem? US Robotics doesn't seem to have any support >for this modem in a Unix/BSD environment. > >Thank you, > >Mike Probably not. The reason you got your Winmodem so cheap (and the reason it's called the _Win_modem) is because it's mostly a software-controlled modem. They took out a few of the more expensive, hard-working chips, and made your computer's CPU do the work. That's why you need to load their special software and you need at least a Pentium to get high connect speeds. You're pretty much stuck with Windows. --Ludwig Pummer ----------------------------------------------------------------- ludwigp@sns.com ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org http://www.sns.com/~ludwigp <--^-- Updated 11/22/96 PGP Key & Geek Code available on web page