On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Peter wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > >> > >> >On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:38:50AM +0200, Ori Idan wrote: > >> > >Yes, but most AT compliant PCI modems today are software only. > >> > > >> >Someone gave me an Intel modem clone. It sat in junk box until I broke > >> >down and installed a UPS, which took over the only serial port I had > >> >on that computer. > >> > > >> >I stuck the modem in, and obviously it did not work. A quick web search > >> >pointed to a driver written by someone on this list, hosted in Israel. > >> > > >> >A quick download, make and install, and it was working. > >> > > >> >Good job! > >> > >>Nice story. That's the modem I want :-) > > > > No, you want one that works without a driver. Like USR Sportster internal > > and > > such. But an external modem is always better ime. > > How many of those passed through my hands and into the junkyard fifteen or so > years ago....I should have hung on to one. It never occurred to me that I'd > ever need to go back to analog modems. My parents are the only ones I know > still on dialup, now that we finally convinced my in-laws to go DSL. > > Perhaps I should try wireless and see if anyone in their block has an open AP > :-) (No, I wouldn't really do this) > > I will keep my eyes open for the USR Sportster internal. Available in PCI I > hope and not just ISA? > > Thanks for the tip, > Michael
when i bought a PC (in 2002), it came with a rockwell-based modem. as far as i remember, there was no problem using it under a then-current linux kernel - i.e. the driver was open-sourced and added into the standard kernel. assuming no one develops new modems any longer (what for? 3rd-world countries?), it's likely the same chips are used, and hence - the same drivers. since the rockwell chips were very common - many winmodems are supported under linux. i think that a simple 'lspci' will tell you what chip your modem is based on. -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
