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Date:      Wed, 15 May 2002 11:20:46 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Dmitry Shupilov <root@ns.tb.by>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
Subject:   Re: laptop's modem
Message-ID:  <20020515112046.A6144@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <3CE2262E.2CD2EBD3@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:11:10AM -0700
References:  <140151076626.20020515095315@ns.tb.by> <3CE22165.98D63C1A@mindspring.com> <20020515105425.B5775@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3CE2262E.2CD2EBD3@mindspring.com>

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On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:11:10AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:50:45AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > Dmitry Shupilov wrote:
> > > >   Sorry for non-topic question but HELP me!
> > > >   I got laptop Compaq Armada m700 with internal modem Compaq 56K mini
> > > >   PCI. After the new install FreeBSD on laptop I cannot dial out -
> > > >   system doesn't see the modem. What should I do or where can I find
> > > >   some info about it? (On windozz it works on COM4, so I try to trick
> > > >   with device sioX but it didn't help).
> > >
> > > If it's a Rockwell HCF or HSF, there are now Linux drivers whose
> > > source code can be downloaded from the Rockwell web site.  From
> > > a casual look at them, they seem that they would be pretty easy
> > > to port to FreeBSD.
> > 
> > My E700 (I think it has the same mainboard) has the modem recognised
> > by the ltmodem (see the ports collection). Unfortunately it does not seem
> > to get a /dev entry in devfs (my E700 runs -current).
> 
> Do you mean "ltmdm", the Lucent Winmodem driver?

Correct. 

> I'm not sure it's the same modem; generally the modems are on a
> little daughter card that's pinned out the same for a lot of the
> different manufacturers (sometimes by the PC vendor), so that they
> can switch vendors.  Last Compaq I looked at has a Rockwell (guess
> it's "Conexant" now) HCF... just like my Sony.

On the E700 it tells me (well, told me, -current no longer is compatible
with the ltmdm port :( ) it found a Lucent.

Win2K calls it a LT Win Modem.

> The HCF modems are really cheap little buggers; unlike the HSF,
> they lack even more on-board intelligence (just when you though
> winmodems couldn't get any stupider).

Never underestimate M$ aimed hardware ;-)

> Did your E700 work with -STABLE?  The "ltmdm" thing didn't work
> with some Lucent modems, in the same way the binary only Olicomm
> driver wroked with HSF, identified HCF as a modem, but then did
> not work with it.  I'm pretty sure it's still lying about finding
> some modems (but maybe not yours; dpends on your experience with
> -stable).

I only found out about ltmdm after I went to -current so I don't know.

> I *hate* winmodems.  8-(.

Yes, I agree.
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