Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:25:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Karl Heller" <heller@cdnow.com> To: ade@lovett.com Cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for V.90 PCI modems? Message-ID: <199807281825.OAA16891@daria.cdnow.com> In-Reply-To: <E0z1C1V-0003Ad-00@pandora.lovett.com> from "Ade Lovett" at Jul 28, 98 10:50:45 am
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Do I dare ask how external V.90 modems work then?
> Mike Smith writes:
> >
> >> 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?
> Sounds exactly like the DSVD PCI modem inside the Fujitsu Lifebook --
> sadly Fujitsu have not exactly been forthcoming on information about
> how their Windows drivers work (though in this case there's support
> for both Win95/98 and NT).
> Under Windows, it appears as a pseudo-com port (it identifies itself
> as being on COM3, but probing around in the equivalent IO address
> reveals nothing obvious)
> -aDe
> --
> Ade Lovett, Austin, TX.
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