From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Mar 10 15:20:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from crius.flash.net (echo.flash.net [209.30.0.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C8714C80 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:20:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from amcl@flash.net) Received: from localhost (p89.amax12.dialup.dal1.flash.net [208.194.210.89]) by crius.flash.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA10456 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:19:51 -0600 (CST) Received: by localhost (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:24:49 -0600 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:24:49 -0600 From: Alan McLean To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI WinModem Message-ID: <19990310172449.A579@acm.org> References: <199903101708.MAA20518@lonesome.ma.ikos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 05:51:14PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Richard Cownie wrote: > > > Obviously if you want to run FreeBSD you shouldn't buy stuff that only > > works with Windows Of course, but it is still a stupid idea to make hardware tied to one operating system. > > - but let's be honest and recognize this as being > > a deficiency of FreeBSD, rather than slagging off Windows and WinModems. BS, it is a monopoly plain and simple. I am not aware of *any* vendor releasing the necessary information to write a driver. How is that a deficiency of FreeBSD? And as others have already mentioned, winmodems are a brain-dead design in the extreme, pushing processing that is cheaply done in hardware onto the CPU tieing it to one operating system. -amcl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message