Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:37:50 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Keith Pitcher <kpitcher@locallink.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modems Message-ID: <397CD34E.3E67506E@acuson.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000724171057.84053B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> <397CC637.B9999E35@acuson.com> <20000724185039.29136@locallink.net>
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Keith Pitcher wrote: > > > other OS besides Windows). Last I looked, the Creative ModemBlaster was > > fine. The safest bet though is to get an external modem. > > I'd skip the modemblaster. I tried for awhile to get a 56K isa modemblaster > working and failed. I had asked on the lists for any suggestions, all I got > were many emails asking if I'd succeeded - not a success story among them. Hmmm, I didn't have any problems with it. What I did, to avoid PnP hassles, was to change the jumpers to valid IRQ's and IO ports, instead of using the shipping default of PnP. Make sure these numbers match what your kernel is compiled with, and voila! > I did a search on buy.com, found a lucent 56k modem that works fine. It was > even advertised as working with Linux (Not FreeBSD however, how sad) If it will work under Linux (or DOS, OS/2, etc), it will work under FreeBSD. That's because every OS besides Windows is content with accessing modems through IRQ's and ports instead of hardware specific drivers. There's absolutely no reason to use drivers for modems except to reduce manufacturing costs. All a modem should appear to be from the computer's perspective is a serial port. David p.s. As you can tell, I do not think very highly of winmodems. They are an engineering kludge of the highest order. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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