>the thing without buying new hardware. If you buy the single use
>generic cards you can use them for other things as well. Like my
>Netopia ISDN router has PCMCIA slots for a modem. If you put a modem
>in there then the Netopia support folks can dial right into your
>router and set it up or run diagnostics for you. A combo card will
>never be supported in applications like this.

All of the combo cards I've seen seem to identify themselves as modem
cards, with the ethernet support "hidden" - in the absence of software to
recognise the specific card (and PCMCIA multifunction support in the OS),
they'll work by default as a plain modem and thus require no driver. Again,
modems generally don't need drivers, or more accurately the driver support
is so simple that you can assume it's universally present - this is a
pleasant legacy of the fact that a modem once needed to work with a dumb
terminal or teletype. I'd be surprised if your GV combo card didn't work
this way in your router (as a 33.6; you can't receive an incoming 56k call
on an analog phone line, though you ironically could through the ISDN
B-channel, not that there'd be any point).


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