Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:57:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Srinivasan Iyengar <siyengar@mc.hl.siemens.de> Subject: Re: sio1 problem, ppp problem and 3com 3c905B-TX problem Message-ID: <19981008105714.A7327@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <361B92A0.4F530E8F@mc.HL.siemens.DE>; from Srinivasan Iyengar on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 09:11:12AM -0700 References: <001401bdf0de$11bc4900$f90e2599@fvn6s> <19981006134649.X27781@freebie.lemis.com> <361A62DE.2ED7DCAA@mc.HL.siemens.DE> <19981007120448.J27781@freebie.lemis.com> <361B92A0.4F530E8F@mc.HL.siemens.DE>
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On Wednesday, 7 October 1998 at 9:11:12 -0700, Srinivasan Iyengar wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> [Format autorecovered at freebie.lemis.com] >> >> On Tuesday, 6 October 1998 at 11:35:11 -0700, Srinivasan Iyengar wrote: >>> Greg Lehey wrote: >>> >>>> [Format autorecovered at freebie.lemis.com] >>>> >> What model? If it's a "winmodem", you lose. > ... > > I am going to try your other suggestions today - else - throw the > internal modem away and start with something I can configure. BTW it > is a winmodem. You lose. > What is the problem with those beasts that FreeBSD does not like - > just out of curiosity. Well, I suppose the simple answer is "FreeBSD doesn't have a driver for it". The more complicated answer explains why there isn't a driver. Winmodems save a few dollars (cents?) on hardware by making the CPU do the work the modem should do. This relies on the fact that the CPU is not doing anything else at the time. It seems that toy operating systems like Windows 9[58] fulfil this requirement, though I'd be surprised if NT does. On a real operating system, things go on in parallel to data transmission, and any interrupt lockout would cause transmitted data to be garbled. I'd be surprised if winmodems work well even under Microsoft. > In any case, if it makes sense to dump it - I am willing to do so. Yes, it makes sense. Of course, you still need to solve your PPP problems. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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