From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 5 02:07:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5177D16A41F for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 02:07:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dr2867@pacbell.net) Received: from smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC51843D45 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 02:07:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dr2867@pacbell.net) Received: (qmail 49777 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2005 02:07:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.190?) (dr2867.business@pacbell.net@69.233.60.243 with plain) by smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2005 02:07:40 -0000 Message-ID: <4393A101.1000409@pacbell.net> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:08:01 -0800 From: Daniel Rudy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11R6; UNIX; FreeBSD/i386 5.4-RELEASE-p7; en-US; ja-JP; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 MultiZilla/1.6.2.0c Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wojciech Puchar References: <028901c5f643$90936e30$c801a8c0@nexpc> <43918A8B.8090506@pacbell.net> <20051203163722.B37876@chylonia.3miasto.net> In-Reply-To: <20051203163722.B37876@chylonia.3miasto.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Foo Ji-Haw Subject: Re: How do I know if my internal PCI modem works on FreeBSD? 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, 05 Dec 2005 02:07:42 -0000 At about the time of 12/3/2005 7:38 AM, Wojciech Puchar stated the following: >>Basically, it all depends on how much you spent for the modem. A $15-20 >>modem is more than likely a WinModem (software modem) which FreeBSD does >>*NOT* support without a third party driver. If the modem cost $70-100, >>and it is recongized as a serial port by the sio driver, then it >>probably will work. > > > > externally connected modems (by serial) costs less than $100 anyway and do > work for sure. > > many external modems does connect by USB port and can be cheaper, but > check for "hayes compatible" label (or similar) as some USB modems are > winmodems too. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > So, some USB modems are winmodems now? I was not aware of that. Besides, who wants a USB modem anyways? I didn't mention the external modems because the OP was asking specifically about his internal PCI modem. A good internal PCI hardware (controller based) modem is the Zoom 2920. They run about $80 or so at Fry's...If you can find them. Or talk to Zoom directly at http://www.zoom.com. -- Daniel Rudy