From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 22 11:19:44 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D0121065670 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:19:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D528D8FC0C for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:19:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy1 with SMTP id 1so2504135ewy.13 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:19:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=p8UAlwRe2NHFdabxNkOyH507tsZP0u5XoNNlz5YT9Ac=; b=jIv2wD/3633OIzWJxlwc42fcO9WQXd0Wb30FBn+F8D8dE9bqoawEURX/s1R3aCBENO XbXb4lshjJlw+3XSLh8Q5YfPaNyDwZ5iXSnVvh/Hol1oJ2KwShEQP1u8HWapREbPv50z RgVjIdeCjBPNPC1ne2o6NDrry2I6A4Z46IvU0= Received: by 10.213.28.84 with SMTP id l20mr511883ebc.139.1314011981601; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:19:41 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.15.131 with HTTP; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:19:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20110822034203.3dd9e29e@cox.net> From: Odhiambo Washington Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:19:01 +0300 Message-ID: To: Lars Eighner Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary=000e0cd1e2f664db8404ab1641d1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "Conrad J. Sabatier" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:19:44 -0000 --000e0cd1e2f664db8404ab1641d1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 13:18, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:34:22 -0500 (CDT) >> Lars Eighner wrote: >> >>> >>> Since uart in 8.x will not support my PCI 3com hardware modem (as >>> FreeBSD sio has since 4.x) and my PR is gathering dust, before I buy >>> any more coaster sets from osdisc.com, it behooves to ask if there >>> are any dialup modems that 8.x uart actually supports for ppp on >>> demand? >>> >> >> Do you have a serial port on your machine? If so, why not go with an >> external modem? Always worked for me, back in the day. :-) >> > > And my internal hardware modem worked for me when there was a serial > driver, > namely sio. It won't work with 8.x and uart, so there is no reason to > think > that things that used to work with sio will work with uart. > > That's my question: what dialup modem is KNOWN to work with uart on 8.x? > > This is a very legit question. Perhaps documentation for 8.x needs to be updated by those in the know. I live in some 3rd world country (BTW, how does one become 1st world?) and the use of modems of any kind seems to have died away with the advent of GSM networks and 3G/WCDMA. I was almost going out yelling that modems (internal/external/USB) are becoming obsolete. How wrong I was!! BTW, Lars, which country do you live in? Still no 3G there?? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email. --000e0cd1e2f664db8404ab1641d1--