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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!news.bu.edu!mi From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Please confirm or deny my assumptions... Date: 6 Sep 1995 01:15:57 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 26 Message-ID: <42isod$k6f@news.bu.edu> References: <42iots$2ld@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Some time ago (6 Sep 1995 00:10:36 GMT) honorable Toby Hutton, residing at s9312648@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU wrote: |I assume that FreeBSD does not support internal modems, especially |software upgradable internal modems, as I have seen no reference to them |anywhere (in the FAQs or the web pages or other misc. docs). |I have the opportunity to buy cheaply a Digicom Softmodem Connection |Series 144+fax, though I am torn because I sure it won't be supported by |FreeBSD, which I want to install soon. The necessary driver software that |comes with it is of course for DOS. How hard would it be to set up an |internal with FreeBSD and to port the drivers for it?!? (I've done a |little UNIX system programming, though I haven't yet had any experience |maintaining a PC running UNIX). There is a support for DSI modems! AFAIK the .GENERIC kernel comes with it built in. I have that modem (I think it is of older version -- it uses .car files, while yours, probably, is using .dsi firmware), works fine... If you need -- I can send you a little programm that downloads it (I've got it from some kind soul from the core team (-: ). -mi -- И пусть никто не уйдёт обиженным... -- Why is that 2 o'clock all the time?! -- It is a manometer!!!