From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 12 11:58:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from asa1.asan.com (asa1.asan.com [206.20.111.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C602737B479 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 11:58:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from [207.113.83.47] by asa1.asan.com (NTMail 4.30.0013/NT4321.00.31f8ddab) with ESMTP id tqftjaaa for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 14:58:50 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 14:59:08 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: x@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Linmodem? can i use it? Organization: x X-Mailer: Opera 4.02 build 762 X-Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <19584987550191@[207.113.83.47]> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i have a dreaded winmodem in my toshiba satelite 2540cds Laptop. Im using FBSD 3.2Stable and found out too late that winmodems are the most nonsensical pieces of &)$#%@! out there. But ive found a tiny light of hope - i think. linux users are using so called linmodems - using some linux software 'drivers' to utilize the functions of these crappy winmodems. My question is, can these linux 'drivers' be used somehow on FBSD? I understand how linux binaries can be run on FBSD, but this 'driver' is not exacly a binary (i think). it has a .o extension, as in ltmodem.o. Is there something i need to do to this file to make it part of my kernel, or make it an executable...??? the file i dloaded is the lucent5.68 linmodem driver. Link found at: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html it comes with a few files concerning the linux style of installation/uninstallation If all goes to crud, can anyone recommend a good laptop modem? PCMCIA? USB? Thanks, Ric, NY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message