Thank you very much for your reply :-)
David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 16, 2006, at 3:29 PM, David Fontenot wrote:
To whom it may concern,
Currently, I am using Ubuntu Linux 6.06 and it is really a let-
down after I got it when I realized that Ubuntu does not do well
with 28.8kbs/56kbs modems. It will not let me use my modem.
Cheap is the buzzword for internal modems. Windows only is a
common way to make cheap modems, aka, winmodem. I have never used
FreeBSD with a winmodem but understand there is a way to use some
models. Has been many years since, but have used FreeBSD over dialup
external modem with many years of success.
Generally one finds better support for Windows-specific hardware with
Linux than FreeBSD. Linux seems to want badly to supplant Microsoft
Windows and to that goal developers will work to equal every minutia.
FreeBSD says, Bill who?, Bill Joy?
I was wondering how Free-bsd does with dial-up modems (2
year old computer) and highspeed interenet, (I might get high speed
soon).
Unless things have changed, FreeBSD works perfectly with external
modems using PPP protocol to your ISP.
P.S. If my family did share a high speed internet connection,
could I still connect to their network and share the internet, even
if they are both using Windows XP?
Yes. Either an XP machine can share its internet connection
(presumably you will use ethernet) or your FreeBSD system can do the
same for the others. Internet is not yet a Microsoft-proprietary
protocol, quite the opposite as Unix shares its internet protocols
with Microsoft.
Sent from MacOS X thru a shared network using a FreeBSD gateway.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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