From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 9:54:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sneety.insync.net (sneety.insync.net [209.113.65.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDECF37B422 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:54:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Matt (209-113-91-158.insync.net [209.113.91.158]) by sneety.insync.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA05359 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:54:24 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: From: "Matt Bettinger" To: Subject: RE: Internal Modems Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:52:50 -0500 Message-ID: <71F816A89AA9D3119F4C00D0B7094EFC198E44@FIN_SYN> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <71F816A89AA9D3119F4C00D0B7094EFC1B4FF1@FIN_SYN> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ***ok, how do i find out if this sucker is a WinModem? Should i look for such obvious signs as 'this is a winmodem' or 'specifically designed for Windows 95/98' etc.? Well, if the cheapo internal is a WinModem (which it almost certainly is), it won't work under FreeBSD. If it isn't a WinModem then it will almost certainly work. As a side note: I have managed to get an Internal WinModem to work under FreeBSD (USR Sportster 14400 Winmodem), but without error correction/compression--the modem was very sensitive to noise on the line but otherwise worked for over a year and half until I got my 56k external modem. YMMV > If not then what would be a safe choice for a cheap external modem that is > known to work with FreeBSD. Virtually any external modem should work with FreeBSD since FreeBSD is talking to the standard serial port on your computer instead of talking to the modem directly. Internal full modems (not WinModems) generally work fine as well, although they can be a bit trickier to configure (sometimes you have to mess with the com port settings). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message