On Tuesday 15 February 2005 06:07 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Monday 14 February 2005 20:55, Melissa Allen wrote: > > I have located the download page for the driver for my particular Intel > > PCI modem and for Mandrake 10 and up.
>>> snip > > <g> Just because I might learn something, I'll try installing the > > driver first. If I can't make it work, I'll go for the external serial > > modem... > > Never hurts to learn something. Well mostly, anyway. <g> > > The only reason that I suggest external serial is that in a lot of cases, > you have to install a lot of developer tools to get a winmodem working and > even then, it is simply not as fast or good as an external serial. Some of > the drivers are proprietary and the free versions are speed locked to a > lower speed to entice you to pay the $45 vendor fee to get the fast ones. > Given that the Windows drivers are free, I would refuse to pay this out of > principle, much less for a lower speed, software modem. And you may have to go through the whole drill whenever the kernel developers come up with another new idea. (see nVidia, wireless adapters, yada yada...) > Throw in the cost of the external serial models and you might want to get > one despite getting the winmodem to work, which is what I did. While I agree that an external serial modem is the best solution for a desktop, I'm not sure that it is a realistic solution for a laptop. -- cmg
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