On Sat, August 18, 2007 11:19 am, Ralph Shumaker wrote: > John Gunn wrote: >> --- Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> I just bought a USB modem, USRobotics 5633B, and I >>> cannot find anything >>> anywhere to indicate whether or not it is a >>> winmodem. Is there such a >>> thing as a USB winmodem? If so, how can I find out >>> if this is one >>> before I tear off the shrink wrap? >>> >>> I bought it because I was thinking that a USB modem >>> would not be a winmodem. >>> >>> -- >>> Ralph >>> >>> -------------------- >>> How do you test an uncooperative intelligence when >>> it's smarter than you? --Stewart Stremler >>> >>> -- >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >> http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie >> >> >> "Minimum System Requirements" from User Guide at >> http://www.usr.com/support/5633b/5633b-ug/three.html >> are >> 98SE, and Me: Pentium II, 300 Mhz, 128 MB RAM >> 2000 and XP: Pentium III, 500 Mhz, 128 MB RAM >> >> I don't think a modem with its own brain would require >> a host CPU of this power. >> >> John Gunn >> > > Perhaps not, but often the System Requirements confuse the hardware and > software in the package, blending them together as a conglomerate. I'm > betting that the software needs that kind of horsepower, especially if > it handles voicemail (/me thinks it does). It is a rare thing to find a > product that lists system requirements for the hardware separately from > the system requirements for the software. So whenever a product > contains hardware AND software but has only one list for system > requirements, I don't trust it. > > > -- > Ralph > >
I had thought that it was well established that the modem manufacturers were leaving the UARTs out and leaning on the CPU because they save a buck and windoze lusers don't know the difference. I had to buy a (used) PCI modem for my laptop because Toshiba wanted to pocket whatever a UART costs per machine ($.50 X 500,000?), straight to the bottom line. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
