From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 10 12:29:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10938 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:29:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA10933 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:29:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA00513; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 20:29:24 GMT Message-ID: <3648A224.23148111@tdx.co.uk> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 20:29:24 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aaron Parmelee CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd and winmodem References: <3.0.5.32.19981110142549.009836d0@net66.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Aaron Parmelee wrote: > > hello out there: > > i have just installed freebsd on my pc, and so far it is working > beautifully (ie. i can mount my floppy and cdrom drives). > my question concerns my modem. it is a "winmodem." i'm not sure what that > "win" > means, but i have the feeling that it, like my pc, was designed for ms > windows. will this give me any trouble with freebsd? Yes, that's correct - the WinModem relies on using the drivers that the manufacturer supplies for Windows to drive the modem... The upshot is that the modem offloads some of the DSP functions of the modem onto the host PC, thus making the modem cheaper, and pretty useless for other operating systems (that don't have specific drivers)... (And judging by the amount of problems we've had - not too hot even when run under windows!) Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message