From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 8 12:20:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from operamail.com (OperaMail.com [199.29.68.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E469537B6CD for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 11:16:30 -0800 (PST) X-WM-Posted-At: operamail.com; Mon, 8 Jan 01 14:16:13 -0500 X-WebMail-UserID: jim_fix Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 14:16:13 -0500 From: jimmy fix To: Doug Young Cc: freebsd-questions X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00000000 Subject: RE: bsd flavors Message-ID: <3A647B51@operamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: InterChange (Hydra) SMTP v3.61.08 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG actually it all clicks together now... when i had red-hat for a little while it was ok with 33.6, then i put 56k, thinking that if it sees the no-name 33.6 it would definitely see the 3com. it wasnt like that though. in fact it never worked... never mind anyway, good oportunity to get a proper modem together with bsd :-) >===== Original Message From Doug Young ===== >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