From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 11 19:22:19 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0756E16A41C for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:22:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout7.cac.washington.edu (mxout7.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A578343D45 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:22:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout7.cac.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.05) with ESMTP id j6BJMH0A029039 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:22:18 -0700 Received: from [128.208.4.96] (dzihan.cs.washington.edu [128.208.4.96]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.05) with ESMTP id j6BJMHm1013798 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:22:17 -0700 Message-ID: <42D2C6E9.5000102@u.washington.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:22:17 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Fedora/1.7.8-0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3447.217.166.224.200.1121109457.squirrel@www.van-steenbeek.net> In-Reply-To: <3447.217.166.224.200.1121109457.squirrel@www.van-steenbeek.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: (win?)modem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:22:19 -0000 Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek wrote: >Hey folks! > >As a long time user of FreeBSD, I have come to a problem I cannot solve >alone :) So your help is apreciated... > >I have moved to an appartement where I have to rely on a modem for the >time being. DSL is following soon, but until then I have purchased a modem >wich claims to be a hardware modem. The main chip on the device says: > >Conexant <- bad news? >RHS6D/SP-PCI <- google gives no avail... >R6795-11 / >F21824.2 <- whatever... >0011 MEXICO \ > >In Windows XP (wich I installed because FreeBSD didnt detect the darn >thing) the device is recognized as "best data data fax modem" and working. >It deems the device to be using IRQ 17 and I/O EC00-EC07, but telling this >to device.hints doesnt work (irq out of bitmap). The hardware string >Windows gives me is: PCI\VEN_14F1&DEV_1085&SUBSYS_108514F1&REV_89. > >>From the looks of it I've come to think this is a software WinModem, but I >do not doubt that this can be just one of the posibilities of the device, >and thus used by Windows (easy road). > >Is there any way to get this thing working with FreeBSD (5.4)? Or is this >indeed a dreaded WinModem? > >Please help me with this :) And please CC me, as I am not on this list >right now (modem... bandwith...) Thanks! > > > Look through linmodem.com. They have a nice list on there of true hardware modems, winmodems, etc. -Garrett