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#! rnews 1800 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!laura.pcug.co.uk!fridaycs!bwspoor Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Message-ID: <128@fridaycs.win-uk.net> References: <33C5A7B7.7C29@hotmail.com> Reply-To: bwspoor@fridaycs.win-uk.net (B W Spoor) From: bwspoor@fridaycs.win-uk.net (B W Spoor) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 19:51:31 GMT Subject: Re: USR Winmodem 56k with FreeBSD 2.2.1 Will it work? Lines: 25 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44431 In article <33C5A7B7.7C29@hotmail.com>, -=mFp=- (mfpmax@hotmail.com) writes: >I crashed my other system that had Win95/FreeBSD(Win95 virus or >something).And know I want to put it on my other system that has a >Winmodem. Will this thing work with FreeBSD or will it just crap out. I >have another modem but I don't know how to set it up. Can someone >help/answer these questions for me. > >Jason > > I doubt it very much. I have found out the hard way that WinModems are software driven - very little hardware on the card, the windoze driver does all the work, and you have to hope that it is the latest version and to the TAPI spec. My problem was on a windoze system, an unknown modem trying to load PCAnywhere 32. After a lot of head scratching and a phone call returned from Canada (to the UK) I found out about WinModems. A proper modem cured the problem. Brian ----------------------------------------------------------- Brian W Spoor MBCS Chartered Information Systems Practitioner Friday Computer Software Phone: +44-(0)1803 852625 bwspoor@fridaycs.win-uk.net Fax: +44-(0)1803 854926 -----------------------------------------------------------