Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 15:27:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Ugen Antsilevitch <ugen@xonix.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI modems do not work??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909051525090.89177-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <37D2C371.1835A96B@xonix.com>
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On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote: > Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the > recent traffic in freebsd-questions. > It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently > our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am wrong here - > kick me and ignore the rest of the message. > If i am right - this really has to be fixed and soon. There aren't many ISA > 56K modems out there that aren't winmodems. On my last search everything that > was 56K was divided about 80% winmodems and 20% PCI modems (with UART). > I don't think for someone with understanding of low level drivers implementing > this should be too hard? After all all the difference AFAIK is in how interrupts > are delivered from a device. It still has the same ports, doesn't it? > > If this is not fixed soon FreeBSD users won't be able to get a modem working > at all... and then how the hell is this going to be a network system?:)))) If you want one, then you have to write one. No one who knows how to do that wants to support something like that. I *think* that the way that modems are going is not going to eliminate regular modems (and it's _certainly_ not done that yet). > --Ugen > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@mat.net | communications topic, C programming, Unix and 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | carpentry. It's all in the design! Greenbelt, MD 20770 | picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD/i386 (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD/Alpha ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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