From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 15:25:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1481916A4CF for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:25:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from jagor.srce.hr (jagor.srce.hr [161.53.2.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1509143D5A for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:25:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mkrkac@public.srce.hr) Received: from public.srce.hr (cmung3103.cmu.carnet.hr [193.198.140.55]) by jagor.srce.hr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0JNOvrF029564; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:24:58 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <400C6863.4050804@public.srce.hr> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:29:39 +0100 From: Marin Krkac User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johnson David References: <400A89CC.1060200@public.srce.hr> <200401191114.31546.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <200401191114.31546.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter at jagor.srce.hr cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What about controllerless "hardware" modems? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:25:04 -0000 Johnson David wrote: > On Sunday 18 January 2004 05:27 am, Marin Krkac wrote: > >>I have an internal "hardware" modem. When I bought it they said it >>was a hardware modem and it said so on the box too. It has an >>Intel/Ambient chipset, or more precisely, as the windows driver says, >>Intel 536ep. But I found out just a few days ago that it's not >>actually a real hardware modem. It has a DSP but it's controllerless >>- that part is in software. It's also called a HAM modem (a Host >>Accelerated Modem). There is a linux driver but I think it's only >>partially open-source. Is there any chance this modem might work >>under FreeBSD? > > > For technical advice on modems, I would redirect this question to the > freebsd-hardware or freebsd-questions lists. That's what they're there > for. I wasn't exactly looking for technical advice. First I wanted to see if there is any chance it would work at all. I still hope there is, so I think I'm going to ask there. > But on to non-technical answers. You're going to have a devil of a time > getting winmodems working under FreeBSD. Porting their drivers over can > be very problematic because of the differences in kernel achitectures. > I have heard that there had be some limited success with some modems, > but I don't know much more. I know this modem isn't exactly what I expected (it's not completely in hardware), but I wouldn't call it just a winmodem. The box clearly says it's a "hardware-based modem, built-in processor", so I think that should help a little to increase the chances it might work. I mean it isn't a real hardware modem, but it isn't a soft-modem either. Because, as I've said already, if it doesn't work, I really don't see a point in running FreeBSD. There is no other way I can get on-line. Thanks for your help.