From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 20 23: 5:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uq.net.au (fox.uq.net.au [203.101.255.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D14C14FFA for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 23:05:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mynet@uq.net.au) Received: from uq.net.au (dyn-1-129.dialin.uq.net.au [203.100.1.129]) by uq.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26206; Fri, 21 May 1999 16:05:24 +1000 (GMT+1000) Message-ID: <3744EFF9.2B29B7@uq.net.au> Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 15:32:41 +1000 From: Andrew X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kenneth Legg Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: modems References: <3744C14C.B879480E@mail.wvnet.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Us Robotics ( 3comm now ) make great modems. But there is no real difference these days between external modems. Any 56K V.90 external will work fine. Cheers Andrew Kenneth Legg wrote: > I using Freebsd 2.2.5 and would like to know what type of modem I should > buy. I have been told that the US robotics external works very good. If > this is the modem that I should buy does it need to be plug and play, I > was told plug and play was not necessary with external modems because > there are no resources to be used except the ones that are used by the > serial port, and is there anything I have to do to hook it up besides > plugging it in the serial port? Are there drivers to install? If not how > does Freebsd detect the modem? > > Kenneth > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message