Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 06:55:45 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: lcremean@tidalwave.net, louie@TransSys.COM, insane1@geocities.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP PCI modem Message-ID: <199812300555.GAA17014@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199812300721.XAA79159@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Dec 29, 98 11:20:46 pm
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> > > First of all, if you have a WinModem (e.g., a modem without a brain that > > > relies on the system CPU to do a bunch of work), then you're just screwed ... > It could be neat if we start collecting info on "WinModems" : manufacturer, > board, chipset, etc... > > I doubt that they offload that much work to the cpu most likely the chipsets > are very similar to the bt848 for which the control program logic resides from a recent discussion on the mgetty lists i learned that there are two kinds -- one where only controller functionality (i.e. AT command partsin etc.) is demanded to the host, the other one where the winmodem is basically a soundcard and all signall processing is done by the host. The latter give a lot more CPU load although one always wonders what we need CPU cycles for... i am still happily running FreeBSD on a Pentium133 and don't feel like i need to upgrade! luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO . EMAIL: luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione HTTP://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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