Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:10:04 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Juan Palacios <job75214@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Supported Hardware Message-ID: <42BE2A9C.7020907@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20050626021853.13356.qmail@web60323.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050626021853.13356.qmail@web60323.mail.yahoo.com>
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Juan Palacios wrote: >Hello, > > Anyone know what modems free bsd supports? Is pc >bsd and free bsd from the same company? guy? Which is >better? >I know its in beat mode thou, pc bsd that's. So >where's the modem compatibility list? Does it support >intel 537 pci modem? thanks ...list please :>( > > Hello, Juan! The FreeBSD Project (it's a 'loosely-knit' but rather large and highly-skilled group of professionals who work "for" the Project in their spare time) maintains a hardware compatability list on the project's web site. For the latest release (5.4) on all architectures, see: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware.html If you use the "i386" architecture (most people do; these are the IBM-PC compatible machines and 'clones', if you will), then your reading should probably start at: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html I've not heard of pcbsd. It's likely that pcbsd is using FreeBSD code (or OpenBSD or NetBSD code) in their product. FreeBSD is "free", and they could legally do that (AAMOF, I'd consider it pretty smart).... As for the specific modem you mention, I can't say for sure. Conventional wisdom has always been "no internal (Win)modems", but I'm sure I'm way behind on my knowledge in this area. For one thing, not all internal modems are Winmodems; some have an onboard processing unit, but these are increasingly less prevalent today. I'm not sure if I've ever seen one that wasn't an old 14.4Kbps unit.... Secondly, and on a better note: if the modem has a Lucent chipset, a third-party "port" exists to assist the system in using the card. Finally, there have recently been efforts to create a sort of "Windows emulation layer" for network cards*; I don't know if a similar effort for modems is underway or not, or if it is even possible. Good luck with FreeBSD! Kevin Kinsey *For the rest of the world reading this: Yes, I'm referring to ndis(4); yes, it's technically a "wrapper", and no, I don't have any idea whether something like that could be going on for modems....
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