I have to second that - I run an ISP and we constantly have winmodem people
getting disconnected, we have them cold boot and everything is fine, seems
like stupidity to have an operating system that can't hold it's own crap
together trying to be hardware too.
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> Meir Faraj wrote:
> >>> 1) some of us (unforunatelly) have winmodems,
> >>
> >> Where do you live? I'll dig out an external 56K modem and snailmail it
> >> to you if the postage ain't too steep.
> >
> > winmodem work with mandrake 7.2?
>
> Probably not. Probably requires a kernel patch. AFAIK only one kind of
> WinModem (maybe Lucent?) is supported. WinModems are a very bad idea. Wide
> high-latency CISC processors should not be doing byte-wide
> frequent-interrupt I/O. That's what dirt-cheap microcontrollers are for.
>
> They're an even worse idea under Windows, which is why they suck so much
> and NT doesn't support them. Under 9X the modem driver often loses out in
> the latency roulette (high error rates on a good line, random hangups), to
> say nothing of Windows itself locking up, and NT simply can't guarantee
> them appropriate service time, plus they're a reliability/security hazard -
> as if Windows need more of those. Linux can't make guarantees either
> (except RT flavours), but it plays roulette much better than Win9X.
