From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 11:27:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA03820 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:27:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zwei.siemens.at (zwei.siemens.at [193.81.246.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA03809 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:27:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol1.gud.siemens.co.at (root@[10.1.143.100]) by zwei.siemens.at (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA21488 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 20:26:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at by sol1.gud.siemens.co.at with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7 for ) id m0v34rD-000218C; Tue, 17 Sep 96 20:26 MET DST Received: by ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (1.37.109.16/1.37) id AA135874525; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 20:22:05 +0200 From: "Hr.Ladavac" Message-Id: <199609171822.AA135874525@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Subject: Re: Dial-Out Support To: tgallo@sprint.net (Tom Gallo) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 20:22:05 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Tom Gallo" at Sep 17, 96 01:35:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk E-mail message from Tom Gallo contained: > I was reading the release notes for FreeBSD 2.1.5 and read about > dial-on-demand PPP, my question is really just a PPP question. Does > FreeBSD support modems, and if so which ones? Any information regarding > my question would be greatly appreciated. Yes, it does. Basically all external ones (those that have RS-232 connectors on them, i.e. stay away from the Apple only RS422 stuff :) and most internal as well. You will find it easier if you get one with Hayes compatible control language as then all the template scripts need virtually no changes. Faxing is slightly different matter; consult HylaFax and/or mgetty/sendfax documentation--both are in ports (AFAIK) /Marino > > Thanks, > Tom > >