From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 26 6:52:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85E0F37B424 for ; Sat, 26 May 2001 06:52:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 2687 invoked by uid 100); 26 May 2001 13:52:25 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15119.46361.716322.108980@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 08:52:25 -0500 To: Novikmec Jozef Cc: questions@freebsd.org, deven@netexplorer.org Subject: Re: modem compatibility list? In-Reply-To: References: <15119.36890.354579.938148@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Novikmec Jozef types: > On Sat, 26 May 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Not quite true any more in either world. If it's an external serial > > modem, you're fine. If it's a USB modem, it may or may not work on > > FreeBSD. You need a modem that supports the ACM protocols, and not all > > of them do. Last time I looked at Linux, there was no USB support at > > all, but that's been most of a year ago. > Now in Linux is new kernels generation 2.4. and there is quite good > support for USB devices. I personally didn't try, but in mailing lists > there is many examples of using USB under Linux. As I implied, I don't follow Linux closely. I'd be surprised if they supported much more than ACM modems - though support for buggy implementations will vary - as that's the protocol that looks most like a serial device at the application level. The other choices don't, though it's possible the Linux kernel deals with that even though the FreeBSD kernel doesn't. However, there are also USB modems that are completely proprietary; those are effectively external winmodems. Hopefully they will die out as the chipsets implementing the standards drop in price. > OK, I forgot in my answer that there are also USB modems. Generally I > meaned serial modems. So again, you can buy any serial external modem and > it will be good by if you want use it under Linux and probably under > FreeBSD too. I suspected that's what you'd done. I just wanted to make sure someone didn't go out and buy a USB modem as an external modem - only to have it fail. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message