From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 21 02:11:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA02212 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 02:11:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA02200 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 02:11:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id SAA18542; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 18:40:54 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971021184054.09830@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 18:40:54 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "James P. Brewster" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Modems and NeoMagic (was: Unix) References: <344C5C97.BA094A0D@virtual-net.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <344C5C97.BA094A0D@virtual-net.net>; from James P. Brewster on Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 12:41:11AM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 12:41:11AM -0700, James P. Brewster wrote: > I have free/bsd installed on my laptop, but I cannot access the > internet because free/bsd does not come with any compatible drivers > for my modem. I have a U.S Robotics/Megahertz XJ1560 56k. modem. > If you have any suggestions please let me know?? What makes you think the drivers can't handle your modem? We need more information on this one. Please check http://www.lemis.com/questions. > Also I can only use a generic driver for my video card, it is a Neo > Magic possibly made by Yamaha? I don't think it's made by Yamaha, but yes, unfortunately you're right, NeoMagic is not supported by XFree86, since they refuse to divulge programming details. Check http://www.xig.com for a commercial driver that does support it. > If you have any suggestions for that also please notify me!! You could try running X in 640x480 mode. I think it would work, but it's not much fun. Greg