What USB dialup modem WILL work with 8.2?

Robert Bonomi bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com
Sat Aug 27 00:54:01 UTC 2011


> From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org  Fri Aug 26 18:21:24 2011
> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:19:13 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Lars Eighner <luvbeastie at larseighner.com>
> To: Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: What USB dialup modem WILL work with 8.2?
>
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> > On 8/26/2011 3:21 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> >>> So I am asking again: does anyone have a dialup modem of any kind which
> >>> works correctly on 8.x to provide ppp-on-demand? If so what is it?
> >> (As for promises about what *will* 100% guaranteed work, which seems to
> >> be what you really want, I am afraid I can't give any.  It has been
> >> several years since I last used a dialup modem, so I don't know for
> >> sure what *will* work with todays software, only what should work.)
> >
> >
> > Works for me once umodem is loaded as a kld...
>
>
> bingo.

Now we find out if Lars is man enough to publicly admit that he was
absolutely incorrect about his published claim of acting on 'malicious
advice' regarding using a USB modem.

Five hundred quatloos says he's not.  <grin>




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