From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri May 7 17:10:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F4614E0B for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 17:10:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id UAA19663; Fri, 7 May 1999 20:10:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199905080010.UAA19663@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: configuring a modem In-Reply-To: from Marty Poulin at "May 7, 99 10:37:37 am" To: mpoulin@rascal.honk.org (Marty Poulin) Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 20:10:22 -0400 (EDT) Cc: EinreinM@hurlburt.af.mil, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marty Poulin wrote, > One thing to keep in mind which may cause you lots of grief. You don't > mention what brand of modem you are using; in a lot of cases, people buy > these inexpensive "WinModems" which are software-driven. I don't know if > FreeBSD has the drivers for these modems - it's not likely since by their > very name, the modems are designed to work with Microsoft Windows drivers > only. You cannot use a WinModem with FreeBSD (or Linux... or often even with WindozeNT). -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message