On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Franki wrote: > > in its simplist terms, a winmodem is a modem where half the hardware has > been replaced by software.. > > so certain stuff that would normally be done by the modem itself is done by > your PC's CPU via the driver software.. > > The problem is that not many winmodem manufactures make linux drivers or > even supply the specs so that one may be written. > > makes it hard to get them working properly. > > a linmodem is generally one that either had linux drivers supplied for it, > or someone has worked out how to write one for it themselves and have > released it.. > > a winmodem is basically a soundcard
-- . --- |o_o | |:_/ | Give Micro$oft the Bird!!!! // \ \ Use Linux!!!! (| | ) /'\_ _/`\ \___)=(___/ Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux localhost 2.4.17-rc1 #5 Thu Dec 13 18:25:16 AST 2001 i686 unknown 2:00pm up 41 min, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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