Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:29:57 -0500 From: John Amdor III <johnmxl@radiks.net> To: FreeBSD-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <397CD175.5D44057B@radiks.net> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000724171057.84053B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> <397CC637.B9999E35@acuson.com>
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This is pretty obvious, but having learned the hard way I'll pass it on and maybe save someone some head-scratching... Make sure the serial port that you connect your new external modem to is running a 16550 UART...anything faster than abt 14.4k on a 16450 causes problems. Of course, if your MB is relatively new, that shouldn't be a problem. On the other hand, if you are like me and keeping older hardware alive, it does become a concern. John Amdor David Johnson wrote: > As tough as it sounds, you may need to go buy a new modem. And > non-winmodems are more expensive than winmodems. Basically, anything > that is PCI or less than $50 dollars will be a winmodem, though there > are exceptions. Look for a modem that says it will work with DOS (or any > other OS besides Windows). Last I looked, the Creative ModemBlaster was > fine. The safest bet though is to get an external modem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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