Well, I did find a nice package in the FreeDOS repository called LSPPP. Would that work better?
Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: tom ehlert via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 11:48:03 AM To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: tom ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Dial-up emulation? > Indeed, I'm using an old-school program called Qmodem. > My question now is – would I be able to use the Internet using the emulated > modem? yes (if you had any idea what you are doing). But definitively not with QMODEM. Tom > Brandon Taylor > ________________________________ > From: Jim Hall via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2024 10:12 PM > To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > Cc: Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Dial-up emulation? > On Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 9:38 PM Brandon Taylor via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> > wrote: > Since FreeDOS doesn't support physical network hardware (even if it's > emulated in a program like PCem or 86Box), I figure there's no way FreeDOS is > gonna be able to connect to the Internet, right? Well... > The developers of the 86Box project have recently implemented emulation of a > Hayes-compatible dial-up modem. So my question is... will FreeDOS support the > emulated modem? > Well, it's not that "FreeDOS" would support the Hayes modern, but that > terminal/dialer software would then be able to. FreeDOS is not like Linux, > which uses a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) to support the hardware > directly. FreeDOS, like any DOS, does normal DOS things and leaves certain > hardware access (like playing sounds through a sound card, or accessing a > network to browse the web or check email, or dialing out through a modem) to > other software. > So if you had a terminal/dialer program like Procomm or Telix, then yes, I > expect you'd be able to dial out through this emulated Hayes modem from > FreeDOS. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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