From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 24 17:15:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FFF337B7EF for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:15:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Received: from localhost (lplist@localhost) by q.closedsrc.org (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e6P0Ctx34426; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:12:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:12:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: Tamgiao Nguyen Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modem In-Reply-To: <397CD7A3.60C27CD@umbc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, 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? > > What do you think about this US Robotics (3Com) modem: > > http://www.3com.com/client/pcd/analog/pci_faxmodem_features.html > > It's not a Winmodem. Call me old fashioned, but I personally prefer external modems mostly because I can save one slot for something more important. If the AC adapter dies, then I hack one together. I think it's kind of wasteful to use up a PCI slot if all it needs to do is transfer a maximum of 115.2Kbps over the bus. // Linh Pham // http://closedsrc.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message