Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Thu, March 29, 2007 15:43, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
From the 'Dell' article:
For cases such as WinModems, for which there are neither open source nor
proprietary drivers
available, Dell will be encouraging users to substitute a hardware-based
modem. "However, we can't
substitute hardware-based modems in our notebooks without redesigning and
significantly increasing
the price of the system.
What nonsense. Exactly how much does it cost to manufacture a hardware
modem these days? And why can the hardware bits not be on a
daughterboard, like the wireless, bluetooth and other bits are?
Hans
My ThinkPad R31 had a modem on a daughter board, shared with WiFi. It
was a software modem that was supported in later versions of SUSE and
worked well. Unfortunately, I lost that modem, when I upgraded the
WiFi. However, there are single chip hardware modems available, but I
don't know how the cost compares.
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