Just go with a harware modem.. i have a nice zoltrix with a rockwell
chip that works excellently in Linux. Also if one IS insistent on
using a winmodem, i have read that PC-tel (whose modems at work we
affectionately refer to as PC -hell) is releasing a new line of
winmodeme called Linmodems (www.linmodems.org) that r supposed to work
with linux. I'm not holding my breath tho...
-myth0s
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On 11/24/99, 6:11:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re:
Viking Modem:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:00:58 -0800 "Dennis Voitenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
> > I got a Viking PCI modem that has a Lucent chip on it as follows:
> >
> > LUCENT
> > HV90P-T
> > REA 12
> > 9935S 3961274
> > (C) 98 LUCENT
> >
> > Does anyone know if this thing will work under Linux? Do I have to
> > use
> > pnptools to activate it? Is it braindead? It does not look like a
> > Winmodem
> > to me but who knows, maybe it's some other type of a stupid beast.
> I guess the best solution to all of these evil WINMODEMS would be
> to go back to the old EXTERNAL modems. Not that I am
> saying everyone should sell their internal modems, but I find that
> its easier with external modems because I don't know of any non-
> standard, external WINMODEMS ( please correct me). They all use
> the standard serial interface on the backs of computers, so I/O
> addresses and IRQs shouldn't be that much of a problem. Would
> that explain the reason that their are more external CSU/DSUs that
> internal ones ? External modems are more machine and OS
> independent, and that's how why they are designed that way....
> Sorry but the rant, but its a solution....
> Jeremy
>
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