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Date:      Sun, 5 Nov 2000 19:23:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Antony T Curtis <antony@abacus.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Supporting "winmodems" (was: PCI Modems Not Shown As Supported Hardware)
Message-ID:  <200011060323.eA63NnN10511@realtime.exit.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001105114757.A307@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 5, 2000 11:47:58 am"

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Greg Lehey wrote:
> I'm afraid it won't be long before these are the only modems available
> for laptops.  I even accidentally bought on in PCMCIA format a couple
> of weeks ago; nothing in the documentation indicated that it was a
> "winmodem".  While I disagree with the idea of "winmodems", I think
> we're going to have to support them sooner or later.  I do agree that
> "someone else" can do it, though :-)

My Dell laptop came with one preinstalled.  I didn't know it was a winmodem
until it didn't work when I installed FreeBSD and called tech support.

It would be nice to have this support.  What I mainly want to do, though,
is shoot the guy that invented them.
-- 
Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com	http://www.exit.com/
Exit Consulting                 http://store.exit.com/


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