From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 10:45:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom2-178.telepath.com [216.14.2.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E607737B422 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:45:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 90898 invoked by uid 100); 28 Aug 2000 17:44:41 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14762.42249.362164.82889@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:44:41 -0500 (CDT) To: "Matt Bettinger" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Internal Modems In-Reply-To: <71189245@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Bettinger writes: > 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.? Check for "OS Requirements". If it requires Win9x, then it's probably a Winmodem. If it can work on DOS, Windows NT or Linux, then it probably isn't (I'd say it wasn't, except there are drivers for some of the Winmodems for Linux, and possibly NT by now). I'm not sure about Win2k. Also, PCI tends to be Winmodems, ISA not (but this isn't a hard-n-fast rule either). I didn't have any luck finding a PCI card that was supported prior to 4.1-RELEASE. Getting a cheapo external modem is probably the best bet. You may even be able to borrow one from someone who's upgraded to broadband.