Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 22:56:24 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "JAKE RIVERA" <jakerivera@ameritech.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problem with modem in laptop Message-ID: <00fd01c08ea9$f52da380$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <000a01c08ea4$31cd6920$2fa0b3c7@s9c8y1>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I just went through that exercise a few weeks ago. After phoning the Australian distributors of EVERY known breed of PCMCIA modem I couldn't find one that WASN'T a winmodem. We don't get every product here so its possible that "proper" PCMCIA modems are available elsewhere in the world. Similarly with GSM ones ..... all the ones known in this part of the world are software type (winmodems) except for the industrial models made by Siemens / Ericsson / Falcom. Nokia imply on a few of their websites that their products are not winmodems, however the ones I've tried certainly ARE winmodems ... that doesn't surprise me because the only experience I've had with Nokia has been unfavourable. ----- Original Message ----- From: JAKE RIVERA To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 10:15 PM Subject: Problem with modem in laptop I have a Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop and everything works perfectly except my modem(Actiontec 56 Modem software). I'm not sure whether is a winModem or not. so If my modem is a winModem what can I do to get it to work....Or if there's no possible way that winModems would work in FreeBSD what kind of modem should I buy, and Do I have to take out the internel winModem in order to get the New modem to work properly. Or I could just leave the winModem alone and install it in one of the PCI. [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just went through that exercise a few weeks ago. After phoning the Australian distributors of EVERY known breed of PCMCIA modem I couldn't find one that WASN'T a winmodem.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We don't get every product here so its possible that "proper" PCMCIA modems are available elsewhere in the world.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Similarly with GSM ones ..... all the ones known in this part of the world are software type (winmodems) except for the industrial models made by Siemens / Ericsson / Falcom. Nokia imply on a few of their websites that their products are not winmodems, however the ones I've tried certainly ARE winmodems ... that doesn't surprise me because the only experience I've had with Nokia has been unfavourable.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jakerivera@ameritech.net href="mailto:jakerivera@ameritech.net">JAKE RIVERA</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG href="mailto:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG">freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 04, 2001 10:15 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Problem with modem in laptop</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop and everything works perfectly except my modem(Actiontec 56 Modem software). I'm not sure whether is a winModem or not. so If my modem is a winModem what can I do to get it to work....Or if there's no possible way that winModems would work in FreeBSD what kind of modem should I buy, and Do I have to take out the internel winModem in order to get the New modem to work properly. Or I could just leave the winModem alone and install it in one of the PCI.</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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