tom strickland wrote: > > My friend is about to buy a modem, and he'd like it to be compatible with > linux. Buying PCI would be more futureproof than isa or serial. I know that > winmodems don't work under linux - most software modems in other words. I > know that pci modems don't work on linux at the moment (not without > fiddling, and then only some), but will they work under kernel 2.4? Just like anything else: it depends... All winmodems are PCI-based, but not all PCI-based modems are winmodems. If it costs more tham $65, it *probably* is a "hardware" modem, as opposed to a winmodem, which is a.k.a. a software modem. "Hardware" PCI-based modems will usually advertise the fact, or say that they are DOS compatible. Ron -- +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +----------------------------------------------------------+
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