From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jan 16 10:11:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6146E37B402 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:11:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA74D6; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:15:24 -0800 Message-ID: <3A648E11.CDE58974@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:08:17 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com wrote: > > Hey guys ; what is a good externel modem to buy for FreeBSD i can be sure > will work without problems? I have been told U. S. Robotics is good but i > want some more opinions. Thanks MODEMS FOR NEWBIES There are three types of modems commonly in use in the PC industry: external modems, internal component modems, and internal winmodems. The first two modems will work under any PC operating system. The latter will only work under Windows. Winmodems are bad things, even for Windows users. Telling the difference between a component modem (good) and an internal modem (evil) can be hard. But so far as I know, no external modem relies on software. If your OS can access the serial port then they will work with no problems. I personally prefer external modems. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message