From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 14 08:54:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA23004 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 08:54:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA22999 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 08:54:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0zIaxC-0001Y9-00; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 08:54:14 -0700 Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 08:54:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Don cc: Christer Hermansson , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Most compatible modem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Don wrote: > > The modem I planning to purchase should be a internal, V90-compliant and > > support both FreeBSD and NT. > Why do you want to use an internal modem? Setting them up under any os is > a pain in the rear especially if you dont have a lot of free IRQ's. Externel modems still require an IRQ for the port you plug it into. > Figuring out onto what com port, irq, and dma they have decided to dump > them selves on is pain. If the modem has jumpers, this is easy. If not, it is probably PnP and should happen automatically. Also UARTS don't use DMA. Resetting them if they hang or die means rebooting > the system. An external modem has none of these failings. It resides on > whatever com port you attach it to. It is easily reset. There is nothing > to figure out (such as irq's on a windows box). Not to mention that volume > control and status lights on the modem can be such a blessing if things > are not working right for some reason. > As for a particular brand of modem. I have never had a problem with US > Robotics (now 3com) or Motorola modems. Motorola is not very serious about modems, and wants to get out of that business. It shows. New modem firmware is released very slowly. The new Zoom dual-mode external modems are cheap and good. > -Don Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message