From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 14:19:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from celery.dragondata.com (celery.dragondata.com [205.253.12.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 355BF154F0; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:19:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toasty@celery.dragondata.com) Received: (from toasty@localhost) by celery.dragondata.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA49795; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:17:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from toasty) From: Kevin Day Message-Id: <199909062117.QAA49795@celery.dragondata.com> Subject: Re: PCI modems do not work??? To: chuckr@picnic.mat.net (Chuck Robey) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:17:51 -0500 (CDT) Cc: ugen@xonix.com (Ugen Antsilevitch), toasty@dragondata.com (Kevin Day), questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Sep 06, 1999 05:01:35 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Hey! > > > > Thanx a lot first of all! > > > > Anytime i CAN write something myself - i do. I can go as low as networking code > > or pseudodevice driver. But i am at loss when it comes to hardware (and within > > my scope of work etc. i doubt i will ever learn this stuff). Thats why i pleaded for help. > > > > I volonteer to be your first alpha-tester. I have this modem > > blaster thing. It is PCI and it has a UART. I was going to sell it > > and shell out lots of money for USRobotics 56K ISA real modem. BTW > > they call it "legacy" modem - i think the general direction is such > > that PCI will be the only kind available very soon... > > This is pretty much untrue, because not all applications (industrial > applications) for modems have a PC to talk to, so it's totally > impossible for conventional modems to go away. I used to make my living > tending large banks of modems, and not all applications are 56K even, > because they are only justified if you have a very large modem pool. > > I think you're panicking prematurely, Ugen. You're also checking the > very bottom of the market, and you're exaggerating (in your comment > about shelling out lot's of cash for a conventional modem) the cost of > a regular modem. Things just aren't that desperate. > > It's possible the trend is in a direction I don't like, but I'll still > keep my external conventional modem. It's 33.6, not 56, which means > that my friends can dial into my system, which they can't do if it's a > 56K. That's very nice sometimes. > Well, he's partially true. We're looking at mass buying several thousand PCI modems. The cost for a non-winmodem model is about 3x the Winmodem style. (You can buy winmodems very cheap, since everyone is making them now. You can't buy non-winmodem's cheap because only a few are doing it, and they now charge a premium for this). Another issue is the upcoming death of ISA. Several of Intel's next chipsets don't support ISA at all, making this a somewhat timely problem. Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message