Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:11:07 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: <wayju@paradise.net.nz> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3 questions Message-ID: <20011129120527.Q16958-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <000801c17907$6ba25fe0$6a5f4fcb@wayju>
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 wayju@paradise.net.nz wrote: > Hi, Im sure that many people have asked this but, > > does any of the versions automatically support win modems? no. win modems usually require special drivers in the OS. as far as i know, no one has reverse engineered drivers for these modems on *BSD. > Or do the win(lin) modem drivers usually work in your OS? search through the various archives, someone may have written a wrapper for the lin modem drivers so they'll work with *BSD. again, to the best of my knowledge, no one has done this. > Also is wine included in any of your OSs? wine can be installed from the ports. as such, it's not included in the base OS. you can find the port in $PORTSDIR/emulators/wine. it's relatively simple to install. please read the documentation on FreeBSD at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ > If you can help that would be great. hope this gives you a starting point. -- jan -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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