From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 23:13:00 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA10506 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 23:13:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from beaver.cs.washington.edu (beaver.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA10501 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 23:12:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from tera.com (tera.com [128.95.3.1]) by beaver.cs.washington.edu (8.7.2/7.1be+) with SMTP id XAA05880; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 23:12:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from tao.UUCP by tera.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA11099; Thu, 21 Dec 95 23:12:06 PST Received: by tao.thought.org (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tT0xd-0000GtC; Thu, 21 Dec 95 22:28 PST Message-Id: From: kline@tao.thought.org (Gary D. Kline) Subject: Re: config boca modem problem To: blewis@vet.vet.purdue.edu (Benjamin Lewis) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 22:28:07 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199512220232.VAA19908@localhost> from "Benjamin Lewis" at Dec 21, 95 09:32:39 pm Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP2] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk According to Benjamin Lewis: > > To me, the best reason to have an external modem is that if it somehow gets > all wonky, you can turn it off and reset it without turning off the > computer. I had an internal modem once that would overheat once in a while, > locking up solid. Nothing to do but shutdown. > [[ ... ]] Be nice if some entrepreneur designed an internal modem with the hooks to allow power-cycling via software. Then we could write an X application to display the state on-screen. Save a few bucks and save the extra hardware from eventually going into some landfill. > > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public access uNix