From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 28 08:39:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA02178 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 08:39:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles227.castles.com [208.214.165.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA02167; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 08:39:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA03327; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 08:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807281537.IAA03327@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Ludwig Pummer cc: Mike Smith , Jeff Kletsky , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for V.90 PCI modems? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:53:34 PDT." <199807280654.QAA02235@cain.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 08:37:54 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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