On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Civileme wrote:
> ACK, it's happening!
>
> The PCTel HSP is a Host Signal Processing Modem, one of the first Winmodems to
> become a linmodem
>
> You NEED a DRIVER for Linux which PCTel does provide. GO to their Website or to
> www.pcchips.com where your board was made. One of the two will have the driver.
If this modem performs as poorly in Linux as it does
under Windows, God Help Us all. Rockwell based WinModems
are the worse of the worse. Hundreds of ISP's are
screaming about them and pulling their hair out. The
newest one is the HCF. That one at least does not need
commas after the dialed phone number, but about a mile
or so from the telco switch is about it, and then it
acts up.
Their worse feature is that while they may show a
connect speed of 52,000, they simply do not have the
data throughput that a real modem does at 52,000. I
really wish a different chipset had been chosen. Of
the WinModems, the lucent and USR do an order of
magnitude better. Texas Instruments makes a nice
chipset that uses the 3COM/USR protocols for X2 and V.90.
They are not WinModems, but seem compact enough to fit
onto a motherboard.
The Rockwell chipset costs the manufacturer about $3
to put into the motherboard....
All I can say....is too bad.
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