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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 1998 08:26:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>
To:        "A. Karl Heller" <heller@cdnow.com>
Cc:        ade@lovett.com, mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Support for V.90 PCI modems?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.980729082553.21754D-100000@animaniacs.itribe.net>
In-Reply-To: <199807281825.OAA16891@daria.cdnow.com>

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Sure, they plug into a serial port.

On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, A. Karl Heller wrote:

> 
> 
>  Do I dare ask how external V.90 modems work then?
> 
> > Mike Smith writes:
> > >
> > >> I don't think they look like a standard UART. They get an auto-assigned IRQ
> > >> and a memory range. They only work in Win95 AFAIK (no NT support). Under
> > >> Win95, they load a special driver to emulate a normal COM port (taking up
> > >> the IO address for that COM port and usually another IRQ).
> > >
> > >Yecch.  This sounds more and more like a "Winmodem" all the time.
> > >
> > >Does anyone have any documentation on how they're supposed to work?
> 
> > Sounds exactly like the DSVD PCI modem inside the Fujitsu Lifebook --
> > sadly Fujitsu have not exactly been forthcoming on information about
> > how their Windows drivers work (though in this case there's support
> > for both Win95/98 and NT).
> 
> > Under Windows, it appears as a pseudo-com port (it identifies itself
> > as being on COM3, but probing around in the equivalent IO address
> > reveals nothing obvious)
> 
> > -aDe
> 
> > -- 
> > Ade Lovett, Austin, TX.
> 
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