From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 12:17:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D817237B422 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:17:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA23879 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:17:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA11030 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:15:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id G00O9L00.18K; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:17:45 -0400 Message-ID: <39AABAD6.299CF8BD@mitre.org> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:17:43 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Hamell Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internal Modems References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Hamell wrote: > > > is), it won't work under FreeBSD. If it isn't a WinModem then it will > > almost certainly work. As a side note: I have managed to get an > > Internal WinModem to work under FreeBSD (USR Sportster 14400 Winmodem), > > USR never made a 14.4. Winmodem. It's actually a Plug AND Play > modem if anything. Winmodems never showed up before 33.6 except in a few > really rare cases, and are mostly 56k. I'm pretty sure it was a WinModem. It required special (Win31!) drivers to turn on error correction/compression, and I seem to remember the word WinModem on the box. Reading through the excellent page posted above, I have discovered that there are TWO kinds of WinModems. The modern kind, as Mr. Hamell points out are used on 33.6+ modems, and ones based on the Rockwell Protocol Interface (RPI). It seems that RPI modems (like the USR) will work as regular modems, without the hardware compression/error correction. If anyone else cares (not likely), there is an RPI faq available: http://www.zoomtel.com/techsprt/rpi/rpi_faq.html -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message