Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:17:43 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internal Modems Message-ID: <39AABAD6.299CF8BD@mitre.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008281101460.30253-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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Rick Hamell wrote: > > > is), it won't work under FreeBSD. If it isn't a WinModem then it will > > almost certainly work. As a side note: I have managed to get an > > Internal WinModem to work under FreeBSD (USR Sportster 14400 Winmodem), > > USR never made a 14.4. Winmodem. It's actually a Plug AND Play > modem if anything. Winmodems never showed up before 33.6 except in a few > really rare cases, and are mostly 56k. I'm pretty sure it was a WinModem. It required special (Win31!) drivers to turn on error correction/compression, and I seem to remember the word WinModem on the box. <A few minutes pass> Reading through the excellent page posted above, I have discovered that there are TWO kinds of WinModems. The modern kind, as Mr. Hamell points out are used on 33.6+ modems, and ones based on the Rockwell Protocol Interface (RPI). It seems that RPI modems (like the USR) will work as regular modems, without the hardware compression/error correction. If anyone else cares (not likely), there is an RPI faq available: http://www.zoomtel.com/techsprt/rpi/rpi_faq.html -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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