Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:49:14 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: mattb@finsyn.com Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internal Modems Message-ID: <39AA980A.65C72AF9@mitre.org> References: <71F816A89AA9D3119F4C00D0B7094EFC198E42@FIN_SYN>
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Matt Bettinger wrote: > > Hello, > > While still waiting for DSL to be available in our area I thought I'd get a > modem for my FreeBSD computer to mess around with. I picked up a Smartlink > 56k internal modem before work and was wondering if it would work? (if it > doesn't no big deal cost me 20 bucks). Should I return it and get a cheap-o > external off the net or will this internal one work? Well, if the cheapo internal is a WinModem (which it almost certainly is), it won't work under FreeBSD. If it isn't a WinModem then it will almost certainly work. As a side note: I have managed to get an Internal WinModem to work under FreeBSD (USR Sportster 14400 Winmodem), but without error correction/compression--the modem was very sensitive to noise on the line but otherwise worked for over a year and half until I got my 56k external modem. YMMV > If not then what would be a safe choice for a cheap external modem that is > known to work with FreeBSD. Virtually any external modem should work with FreeBSD since FreeBSD is talking to the standard serial port on your computer instead of talking to the modem directly. Internal full modems (not WinModems) generally work fine as well, although they can be a bit trickier to configure (sometimes you have to mess with the com port settings). -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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