From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 2 9: 5:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1195E37B423 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 09:05:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4204YE46137; Wed, 2 May 2001 00:04:35 GMT (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200105020004.f4204YE46137@fac13.ds.psu.edu> To: "Kevin Oberman" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Thinkpad A21p modem [was: WinModem --but which is which? ] In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Apr 2001 07:25:41 MST." <200104301425.f3UEPfc03216@ptavv.es.net> From: dochawk@psu.edu Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 00:04:34 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Keven kicked, > > From: "~/.signature" > > I have an A21p thinkpad coming tomorrow with the ethernet/modem combo. > > Is this one of the usable ones? IBM's pages refer to the "miniPCI" > > modem, which seems to be something separate. > > Or someone *could* tell me that that one has a real modem, but I'm not > > holding my breath :) > I don't know for sure, but from the looks of things, it's probably a > Lucent WinModem. It might be an IBM mWave, but I don't think that they > are still using it in new models. > If it is a Lucent, the port of the LinModem code to FreeBSD might well > work, but until we get some reports of success or failure, there is no > way to know for sure. The machine is here, and running. I can't even get the load up-- with make buildworld -j3 running on one console, and X building in another, I'm still getting lots of idle time reported . . . (and no, I don't want to trade problems :) The ethernet is internal, as is the modem--I'd assumed they'd be on a pcmcia card. I'll volunteer as guinnea pig, but someone is going to have to talk me through this--I am *way* out of my element here. hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message