On Thursday 29 March 2007 10:48, James Knott wrote: > 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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