From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 24 17:14: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC94C37B51E for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:14:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA14D; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:16:04 -0700 Message-ID: <397CDB41.992435F@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:11:45 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tamgiao Nguyen Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modem References: <397CD7A3.60C27CD@umbc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tamgiao Nguyen wrote: > Just curious, why would PCI be a bad choice? Some newer motherboards have no ISA > slots at all. Would FreeBSD have any problems with non-Winmodem PCI modems? The problem is that 95% of PCI modems are also Winmodems. So if you're going to get a PCI modem, you need to carefully check it out (like you did below). > What do you think about this US Robotics (3Com) modem: > > http://www.3com.com/client/pcd/analog/pci_faxmodem_features.html This one looks good. Since the requirements do not list Linux (it only says it works with Linux), I see no problems with it for FreeBSD. However, serial port parameters are built into the kernel, so if a PCI modem changes its ports you might have a problem. You will probably have to define its IRQ and port in your BIOS, instead of letting it autoconfigure. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message