Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 10:34:52 +0800 From: John Summerfield <summer@OS2.ami.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.orG Subject: Re: Supporting "winmodems" (was: PCI Modems Not Shown As Supported Hardware) Message-ID: <200011060232.eA62WeZ31852@emu.os2.ami.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Nov 2000 11:47:58 %2B1100." <20001105114757.A307@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
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> On Thursday, 2 November 2000 at 10:04:08 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <3A013CF9.E1CC203A@abacus.co.uk> Antony T Curtis writes: > >> What about Lucent-based "controllerless" modems? AFAIK, there is support > >> for this chip is in other non-doze platforms. Would anyone know where to > >> start with it? > > > > No. Those weon't work. IF there are drivers, someone else can port > > them. > > 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 :-) Someone else did it. There are drivers for Linux for some winmodems, though I don't know where. Porting them to FreeBSD ought not be so difficult. Try a search at altavista for linmodem To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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