Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:53:14 +0000 From: "clayton rollins" <crollins666@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Cc: mkrkac@public.srce.hr Subject: Re: What about controllerless "hardware" modems? Message-ID: <Sea1-F127fSp1J106zP00009eaf@hotmail.com>
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On Jan., 19 2004 Marin Krkac <mkrkac@public.srce.hr> wrote: >clayton rollins wrote: > >>Hi Marin, >> >>On Jan., 18 2004 Marin Krkac <mkrkac@public.srce.hr> 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? >> >>You might try running one of the binary linux drivers through linux >>compatibility. If you need technical assistance in doing this, the >>-questions list should be able to help you. There is a chapter in the >>handbook on this: >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html > >I didn't know linux compatibility also applies to drivers. > >Thanks for your help. > Hi Marin, Eeek! I should have been clearer about what I meant... I have no idea if the compatibilty layer is capable of this; I just thought it would be something to try. The little sentence about technical support and -questions was meant to point you in the right direction if this doesn't work, or if you needed further advice about using linux compatibility. Hope you get it working... :) Regards, Clayton _________________________________________________________________ Learn how to choose, serve, and enjoy wine at Wine @ MSN. http://wine.msn.com/
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