From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 24 16:29:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.radiks.net (mail.radiks.net [205.138.126.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C12E37BD26 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:29:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnmxl@radiks.net) Received: from radiks.net (dsp-575-omaha.radiks.net [206.153.216.149]) by mail.radiks.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA05511 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:29:26 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <397CD175.5D44057B@radiks.net> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:29:57 -0500 From: John Amdor III Reply-To: johnmxl@radiks.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail References: <397CC637.B9999E35@acuson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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