Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 08:37:54 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Jeff Kletsky <Jeff@Wagsky.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for V.90 PCI modems? Message-ID: <199807281537.IAA03327@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:53:34 PDT." <199807280654.QAA02235@cain.gsoft.com.au>
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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). Yecch. This sounds more and more like a "Winmodem" all the time. Does anyone have any documentation on how they're supposed to work? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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