From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 13:33:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom2-126.telepath.com [216.14.2.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CFC037BFE6 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 13:33:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 41377 invoked by uid 100); 9 May 2000 20:32:50 -0000 Message-ID: <14616.30194.100579.921217@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 15:32:50 -0500 (CDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Mike Meyer To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Modem suggestions? X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 3) "Acadia" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've just moved to a local with no broadband network support, and find myself needing a modem. For now, I've hijacked one of the motherboard serial ports and borrowed a modem, but this is temporary. I'd like a solution that avoids putting more ISA devices in the system, but it's not clear what will - or won't - work with 4.0-RELEASE. The options seem to be (in order of preference): 1) A PCI card modem. Do any work? The drivers recognize a "VIA 82C686 AC97 Modem", but that 1) looks like a motherboard, and 2) I don't see any other support for it. 2) A USB modem. /usr/src/sys/dev/umodem.c exists, but looks like stubs, and USB modems aren't mentioned in either the GENERIC or LINT kernels. Anyone know if one or more of those will work? 3) A PCI I/O card. Again - are there any that work? There's a "cyclades" driver; anyone care to provide a product identity I can use to purchase a card? 4) An ISA modem or I/O card. Oh well. Recommendations? Thanx,