Re: analog modems for OpenBSD?

[Jakob Fix <jakob_(_at_)_jfix_(_dot_)_com>]

Nick Holland <nick <at> holland-consulting.net> writes:

> 
> Jakob Fix wrote:
> > Hello, I've looked around, but it seems nobody is using or interested in 
> >   those 56k modems anymore that were used three or four years ago.
> 
> yeah, finding people interested in modems at all is difficult.  Those
> that are forced to work with them anymore lose all interest in working
> on them the second they get a "real" connection. :)
> 
> > I would like to make my OpenBSD 3.6 box handle fax sending and 
> > receiving, but I only have a Winmodem on an ISA port ("Sportster 
> > Winmodem 56K", see dmesg).  The ISA port is fine because the two PCI 
> > ports are used by ethernet cards.
> 
> you got a P75.  Winmodem wouldn't work even if there were drivers.

ah, ok.

> > So, my question is, do *internal* (ISA) modems exist that can be used 
> > with OpenBSD?  And if yes, which ones, and where can one get them?
> 
> "Any scrap pile"

ok, I don't live in Switzerland, but still I can't seem to find these "scrap
piles".  Well, at work we don't have machines that old, or they don't have
modems, and at home I have only the already described cards ... I don't get out
much :-)

> think about this a moment:
> If what you are after is FAXING, fax modems peaked out at 14.4kbps LONG
> ago, and many 2400 bps modems would send and receive faxes happily at
> 9600bps or even 14.4k.
> 
> So, really, many 2400bps, and most 9600bps, 14.4kbps or 28.8kbps modem
> will work fine for you.  Almost anyone who's been in the business a few
> years has piles of these things.
> 
> New Real modems still exist.  But for faxing?  why? :)

Well, I guess you're saying "why not just buy a real fax machine", and my wife
would probably approve!

> dual gigabit cards in a P75.  That's sick.  I like that. :)

Wow, you read the dmesg!  I was actually expecting a comment like that.  Thanks,
I can go to bed now ;-)

Cheers,
Jakob.