Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:11:02 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: root <root@mta.imt.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question Message-ID: <14681.13446.945620.565456@hip186.ch.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006271654120.1754-100000@mta.imt.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006271654120.1754-100000@mta.imt.net>
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[ On Tuesday, June 27, root wrote: ] > Dear FreeBSD, > > I think I have read nearly all the online docs I can find and have had no > luck whatsoever find a list of MODEMS compatible with FreeBSD. I have an > old box at me home that I am putting together on freebsd to test the > proposal that we run this server on freeBSD, but the problem is that that > box needs to run on a MODEM, as opposed to a nic card like here. > Do you have such a list on the site you could point me to? > > Sincerely, > > Russ Mummey - SysAdmin FUNKLTD.com (sending mail as root to these lists is generally frowned upon ... use your user account). [ also, questions like this would be more suited to questions@freebsd.org not this documentation list in the future ] Just about any "good ol' fashioned modem" can be used with FreeBSD. Winmodems are NOT supported--you need to have a modem with real hardware brains that doesn't rely on a windows driver. I've heard of some stuff going on in 4.x-STABLE (or maybe -current??) where people are trying some (experimental) drivers for PCI modems (again, *real* modems, not fake POS WinModems--they are just on a PCI card rather than ISA). I do not think this is "main stream" however. You are better off just getting yourself a nice USR or Zoom ISA modem (or external if you prefer it), slapping that on an unused COMx port and going to town. Keep in mind that the device files you should use for "dial-out" are: /dev/cuaa0-n (where n "usually" is 3 on a typical machine with 4 com ports) Just make sure that you have got good documentation on the modem so you know the INIT string, etc. Use a comm program such as "minicom" from the ports collection to test out the modem before you begin mucking with ppp (just my opinion). -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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