From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 14 16:35:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1276714BC9 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:35:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA57657; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:10:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:10:55 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Jamie Bowden Cc: Dave Walton , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CompUSA adventure Message-ID: <19990914201055.C56201@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990914024852.9402.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Jamie Bowden on Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 08:09:48AM -0400 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 08:09:48AM -0400, Jamie Bowden wrote: > Your best bet (really) is to just get an external modem, and be done with > it. I have a USR Courier V.everything external, and It works on anything > with a serial port. I have plugged it into SGIs and Suns, as well as Macs > and PCs. It's more expensive than the internal, but I don't think the > Courier internal is PCI yet, or if it even will be. If they do make a > Courier internal PCI version, I seriously doubt it will be a LoseModem. Also: * Flashing lights. Much easier to diagnose modem problems when you can see the flashing lights flash when you type "AT" (or not, as the case may be). * Separate power supply. If the modem wedges completely you can reset it without powering off the computer. * Easy to upgrade. You don't have to mess around opening the case to replace it. Death to internal modems! N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message