From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 0:17:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F88215976; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 00:17:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with ESMTP id JAA12181; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 09:16:22 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 09:16:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Andrew Reilly Cc: Warner Losh , Warren Welch , Kevin Day , Ugen Antsilevitch , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI modems do not work??? In-Reply-To: <19990906151211.A21968@gurney.reilly.home> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > And USB? This reference says that you can (now? soon?) buy a > laptop docking station with all of the usual ports, connected > only by USB... > > http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99093.piusb.htm That thing looks very simple probably on the USB bus: root hub device hub (internal) externally available 4 ports hub externally available 7 ports hub modem serial port parallel port etc. > Hmm. What sort of level of nesting do we support for this sort > of thing? It's probably possible to buy USB interface cards > that plug into ISA, PCI, SCSI? And vice-versa? PCI and CardBus to USB. Any one having seen a ISA or PCMCIA variant, please let me know. USB->SCSI: E-Shuttle from Microtech / Shuttle or in the Iomega Zip drive Nick -- ISIS/STA, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message