Actually, it goes beyond that... I understand that _some_ winmodems have
been made to work with LINUX... The real big difference between most
winmodems & "real" modems is the lack of DSP hardware... A "real" modem has
ICs that do all the modulation, compression, decompression, etc. WinModems
do this in their drivers - thus making a cheaper piece of hardware at the
expense of adding extra load to your CPU... I imagine that on today's newer
CPUs, this is hardly noticeable. The problem is that every manufacturer
uses a different software & hardware interface, thus making it impossible to
develop a single LINUX driver. That's why only one or two have been made to
work...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jake McHenry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 3:23 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Stupid question about winmodems
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> A regular modem has hard set com ports and IRQ's, usually set by jumpers
> or not adjustable at all. A winmodem rely's on the windows operating
> system to determine what com port it uses when you install the modem, and
> it get's set temporaroly in a type of flash memory on the modem. This is
> why winmodem's don't work in linux, or any other type of non-windows
> operating system.
>
> Jake
>
>
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Stephen King wrote:
>
> > Could someone define for me the difference between a winmodem and a
> regular
> > modem?
> > SK
> >
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