Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 20:40:24 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: frank@exit.com Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Antony T Curtis <antony@abacus.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supporting "winmodems" (was: PCI Modems Not Shown As Supported Hardware) Message-ID: <200011060340.eA63eOG03858@billy-club.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Nov 2000 19:23:49 PST." <200011060323.eA63NnN10511@realtime.exit.com> References: <200011060323.eA63NnN10511@realtime.exit.com>
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In message <200011060323.eA63NnN10511@realtime.exit.com> Frank Mayhar writes: : Greg Lehey wrote: : > I'm afraid it won't be long before these are the only modems available : > for laptops. I even accidentally bought on in PCMCIA format a couple : > of weeks ago; nothing in the documentation indicated that it was a : > "winmodem". While I disagree with the idea of "winmodems", I think : > we're going to have to support them sooner or later. I do agree that : > "someone else" can do it, though :-) No one is disputing the desirability of supporting them in the abstract. There are a blue million of the devices out there. The problem comes when you have to support all the buggy DSP versions, all the different schemes, etc, etc, etc. It is a big job. : My Dell laptop came with one preinstalled. I didn't know it was a winmodem : until it didn't work when I installed FreeBSD and called tech support. : : It would be nice to have this support. What I mainly want to do, though, : is shoot the guy that invented them. Fey. You'd have to get in a very long line. :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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