Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:26:11 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Richard Cownie <tich@ma.ikos.com> Cc: dan@wolf.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PCI WinModem's Message-ID: <19990310172611.A25290@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <199903101723.MAA20533@lonesome.ma.ikos.com>; from Richard Cownie on Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 12:23:42PM -0500 References: <199903101723.MAA20533@lonesome.ma.ikos.com>
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On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 12:23:42PM -0500, Richard Cownie wrote: > So you're saying it's difficult to make a WinModem driver that > works well. But is it impossible ? Or have the WinModem people > actually done their homework and made a good job of it ? I tend There is a discussion in a local newsgroup at my former school regarding quality of dialup connections. It is starting to appear that the quality of connections (connection speed and spontaneous hangups) is worse for Winmodems than for regular modems. I wouldn't take this conclusion as gospel yet, but I also wouldn't reject it out of hand. (It's sort of amusing to see the Winmodem-using population whining about how crappy the dialups are, and the Unix population responding with "Huh? My connections are rock-solid.") Besides the issue of whether they are fundamentally broken even in Windows, there is the issue that the manufacturers do not publish information that would be necessary to support them in other operating systems, as far as I know. Calling the lack of support a "deficiency in FreeBSD" is hardly fair under the circumstances. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Science rules. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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