Some pcmcia modems are indeed winmodems. Just half an ago i was looking at
one. I use a Compaq Armada M700. Compaq, in its wisdom, "upgraded" the
modem in this unit. What used to be a perfectly fine real internal modem
is now a winmodem. I have worked with the winmodem(linmodem?) in the
Armada for a while. I've gotten to the point of being able to dial and
establish a ppp connection. At that point however, the connection drops.
I'm looking hard to find a real pcmcia modem. But, more and more,
manufacturers(including 3com) are making winmodems and the real thing is
getting harder to find. I wonder what all those people running NT are
doing? Anyway, I thought I would try a Xircom Realport modem/lan card
combo. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be supported by Mandrake. Has
anyone used one of these cards? If anyone has gotten one of these working
I'd really like to know what it took. Otherwise, can anyone recommend a
currently available pcmcia real modem card which actually has been shown to
work in Linux kernel 2.2.14-15mdk.
brian
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Subject: [newbie] PCMCIA modems
I am trying to get a PCMCIA modems to work under Kppp (MD7.1, Sony Vaio PCG
F250) I have tried all the /dev options from /dev/modem to whatever the
last
one is and either get modem busy, can't open modem etc. If I set flow
control
to "none" and then try to query modem, it will say modem ready and check
the
ATI commands but the resulting table of ATI commands is blank.
The shop told me that all PCMCIA modems are "hardware" modems, were they
wrong,
have they sold me a Winmodem ?
