From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 27 23:54:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA16117 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:54:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from inet.chipweb.ml.org (qmailr@c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA16104 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:54:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Message-Id: <199807280654.XAA16104@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 18596 invoked from network); 28 Jul 1998 06:53:41 -0000 Received: from speedy.chipweb.ml.org (172.16.1.1) by inet.chipweb.ml.org with SMTP; 28 Jul 1998 06:53:41 -0000 X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:53:34 -0700 To: Mike Smith , Jeff Kletsky From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: Support for V.90 PCI modems? Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199807280136.SAA02623@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 06:36 PM 7/27/98 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> I have not been able to find evidence in the FAQs or sio source for the new >> V.90 PCI modems. Before buying one, I'd like to know the status on the >> STABLE branch, and/or stability of code in the CURRENT- branch for its >> support. > >There is no explicit support for these. If they look like a standard >UART, you can tweak an sio to match the parameters the BIOS assigns to >them. > I don't think they look like a standard UART. They get an auto-assigned IRQ and a memory range. They only work in Win95 AFAIK (no NT support). Under Win95, they load a special driver to emulate a normal COM port (taking up the IO address for that COM port and usually another IRQ). --Ludwig Pummer ludwigp@bigfoot.com ludwigp@chipweb.ml.org ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message