From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 8 11: 0:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD9037B6AB for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 10:58:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dougy@localhost) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f08Iw3m03689; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 04:58:04 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 04:58:03 +1000 (EST) From: Doug Young To: jimmy fix Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: bsd flavors In-Reply-To: <3A62FD4B@operamail.com> 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 There's no "law" against internal modems as such. I've used a fair number of 33.6 internal modems to workaround the slow UART chips common in prehistoric 386's. Be aware however the vast majority of internal 56k modems are NOT true hardware modems but of the dreaded "winmodem" ilk .... those disasters certainly don't work in unix. FWIW they don't even work in Win2000 !!!! On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, jimmy fix wrote: > hi, thank u all for the help... > > i'm downloading FreeBSD 4.2 right now. does anyone know how is frebsd doing > with internal modems? i use 3com 56k > > thanx, > jimmy > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message