From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 1 16:53:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63BD415446 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:53:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from bb-b1-11a (ppp79.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.79]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA07344; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:47:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:55:15 -0800 () From: Rick Hamell To: "Ben J. Cohen" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HSP Modems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If FreeBSD doesn't support this now, is it likely to in the near future? As long as it's not a Winmodem, FreeBSD shouldn't care what kind of modem it is. > (PcTel claims that this is/is becoming a popular modem. It seems to have > "winmodem"-like functionality by default, but it appears that this can be > turned off.) Frequently what you're describing is PNP. It can rarely be truelly turned off, there has to be jumpers on the modem itself to do so. If it a PNP modem, you'll have to compile PNP options into the Kernal (I have no idea if it's already there in 3.x) If it truelly a Winmodem, there will probally never be drivers for it... Besides, a Winmodem causes to many system resources to be used... something I personally don't like. :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message