Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:53:34 -0700 From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Jeff Kletsky <Jeff@Wagsky.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for V.90 PCI modems? Message-ID: <199807280654.XAA16105@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199807280136.SAA02623@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:11:23 PDT." <l03110701b1e2b800226b@[192.168.6.3]>
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At 06:36 PM 7/27/98 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> I have not been able to find evidence in the FAQs or sio source for the new >> V.90 PCI modems. Before buying one, I'd like to know the status on the >> STABLE branch, and/or stability of code in the CURRENT- branch for its >> support. > >There is no explicit support for these. If they look like a standard >UART, you can tweak an sio to match the parameters the BIOS assigns to >them. > I don't think they look like a standard UART. They get an auto-assigned IRQ and a memory range. They only work in Win95 AFAIK (no NT support). Under Win95, they load a special driver to emulate a normal COM port (taking up the IO address for that COM port and usually another IRQ). --Ludwig Pummer ludwigp@bigfoot.com ludwigp@chipweb.ml.org ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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