From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 6 14:14:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from knatte.tninet.se (knatte.tninet.se [195.100.94.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B487237B4CF for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 14:14:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2289 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2000 23:14:33 +0100 Received: from delenn.tninet.se (HELO algonet.se) (195.100.94.104) by knatte.tninet.se with SMTP; 6 Nov 2000 23:14:33 +0100 Received: from kairos.algonet.se (kairos.algonet.se [194.213.74.201]) by delenn.tninet.se (BLUETAIL Mail Robustifier 2.2.1) with ESMTP id 20502.548873.973delenn-s2 for ; Mon, 06 Nov 2000 23:14:33 +0100 Received: (qmail 4708 invoked by uid 2493); 6 Nov 2000 22:14:32 -0000 Date: 6 Nov 2000 22:14:32 -0000 Message-ID: <20001106221432.4707.qmail@kairos.algonet.se> From: Mats Lofkvist To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-stable-digest@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (owner-freebsd-stable-digest@FreeBSD.ORG) Subject: Re: Supporting "winmodems" (was: PCI Modems Not Shown As Supported Hardware) References: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My Dell laptop came with one preinstalled. I didn't know it was a winmodem until it didn't work when I installed FreeBSD and called tech support. It would be nice to have this support. What I mainly want to do, though, is shoot the guy that invented them. If you should decide that killing the inventor would be to use a slightly to large hammer, why not just return the damned thing, letting the supplier know you want a real modem that works with something else than windows? You may think they don't care, but with their margins a support case like that is likely to remove a noticable part of the profit on the unit sold to you. Vote with your wallet. By keeping the winmodem you _help_ the inventor/manufacturer you say you'd like to see dead. Asking for it to be supported makes him wish for more enemies like you. _ Mats Lofkvist mal@algonet.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message