Where Art Thou, BSD Winmodem Project?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 27, 2001 @01:50AM from the alack-alas dept.

JRAC writes: "Not long ago, anyone with a winmodem had pretty much no hope getting it to work under Linux. Now with projects like linmodems.org, Linux users with a dreaded winmodem actually have a chance at getting Linux to detect their modem. I myself am a Linux user with a winmodem which works fine, because mine has a Lucent chipset, which has fairly good Linux driver support. But I am trying to migrate to FreeBSD. I knew when I installed BSD that I had no chance getting my modem working, but it didn't bother me. Now after spending hours searching Google trying to find some Lucent drivers for FBSD, I have started to wonder when is someone going to start a BSD winmodem project? Aren't there any winmodem users out there running BSD that are tired of downloading drivers only to find they don't work. What we really need is bsdmodems.org"

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The drivers exist as .ko by Leimy · 2001-11-27 02:32 · Score: 2, Informative

Kernel modules have existed for linmodems on BSD in the past. I "stumbled" over them a few months ago... [up to 6 months ago]. Check daily.daemonnews.org... They may have some information...

Or you could just buy an external modem like everyone else in the world suggests.. Of course if you have a laptop this is a completely different problem. FBSD currently has shaky cardbus support so you woul have to obtain a REAL PCMCIA modem card and not a 32bit cardbus card. [PCMCIA is only 16bit if I recall correctly]