Re: [newbie] usb external modems
L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Friday 08 Nov 2002 1:02 PM, John Richard Smith wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: Whether all USB external modems work properly in Linux. Whether there is also winmodem? I tired a few USB modems which were sold to me as hardware controlled, I returned them, none of the USB dialup modems are hardware controlled they all need software.TI don't think the situation has changed. In any case what's wrong with a nice serial port hardware controlled dialup modem. You don't need to be plugging modems in and out all the time. I am thinking of going for pIV. Most MBs have only one serial port. I need that serial port for my handheld connection. Hence I am thinking of USB modems. Further whether 56Kbps USB modem will be better than its serial counterpart? OK, that's a good reason, do you have a parallel port spare, as many hardware controlled modems can plug in both. As for USB , in my experience , admitedly that is limited , all the hype about faster speed from usb ports is just that, hype, it's just that so much is going USB , one cannot be out of it. For instance, I have a usb printer that can also be parallel port, and just for a simple test on my own behalf , I sent the same print job on the same computer via both ports to that printer , and I could not detect any difference at all. I wonder what if anything is other people's experiences. I believe , by all means correct me if I'm wrong, that there isn't in everyday ordinary user terms much if any difference between serial, parallel,and usb the only exception in my limited experience is scsi devices which are better at handling data. So right now I doubt if you would notice any difference between a usb modem, and any other connection type. Of course I don't have ADSL, maybe things a different there. What are other peoples experiences , I for one would be interested. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] usb external modems
In reply to John's mail, d.d. Sat, 09 Nov 2002 10:22:03 +: As for USB , in my experience , admitedly that is limited , all the hype about faster speed from usb ports is just that, hype, it's just that so much is going USB , one cannot be out of it. I believe , by all means correct me if I'm wrong, that there isn't in everyday ordinary user terms much if any difference between serial, parallel,and usb the only exception in my limited experience is scsi devices which are better at handling data. The point is that a chain is as strong as its weakest link. When you hook up a modem that can, at best, throughput 10Kb/sec, and the connect from PC to that modem is capable of 3Mb/sec, your will still face 10Kb/sec. Sheesh, is that all the fast bus can do? No. It is the phone line, the internals of the modem and what not. Same thing with printers. No matter how fast the bus to the printer is, the printer will still need its time to process and produce the page that it receives. My cable modem can do 500Kb/sec and sometimes I download things at 20Kb/sec. Not the modem's fault. It is what is in between the modem and the file I am getting. Paul -- The future is the most expensive luxury in the world. -Thornton Wilder http://nlpagan.net-Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.8.3 Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] usb external modems
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 18:32, John Richard Smith wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: Whether all usb external modems work properly in Linux. Whether there is also winmodem? I tired a few usb modems which were sold to me as hardware controlled, I returned them, none of the usb dialup modems are hardware controlled they all need software.TI don't think the situation has changed. In any case what's wrong with a nice serial port hardware controlled dialup modem. You don't need to be plugging modems in and out all the time. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you get an internal HCF/HSF modem (PCI) - they'll have a Rockwell chipset - and even though they're WinModems, you can get the drivers for them quite easily. And they're not all that hard to configure. External modems are nice, but you DO have to make sure you can get drivers for them. USR's are definately the best and have been recommended for *NIX systems for quite a long time (more than 10 years). Otherwise, you can pick up a cheap but nice PCI modem just about anywhere - and as long as the chipset meets the requirements just mentioned, y'all should be good to go in no time at all. Stephen -- Fri Nov 8 22:55:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. -- Dr. Konrad Adenauer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] usb external modems
Whether all usb external modems work properly in Linux. Whether there is also winmodem? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] usb external modems
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:50, L.V.Gandhi wrote: Whether all usb external modems work properly in Linux. Whether there is also winmodem? I've gotten several WinModems to work under linux - it's just a matter of finding out the chipset and finding the proper source code to compile (which can be a puzzling game in itself) - but overall, there is: http://www.linmodems.org ...which is a great help for getting WinModems to be LinModems... (Same basic idea applies to USB modems - because USB modems can still be WinModems - which means they are dependent upon the OS to make them work!) -- Fri Nov 8 13:25:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | The horror... the horror! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] usb external modems
L.V.Gandhi wrote: Whether all usb external modems work properly in Linux. Whether there is also winmodem? I tired a few usb modems which were sold to me as hardware controlled, I returned them, none of the usb dialup modems are hardware controlled they all need software.TI don't think the situation has changed. In any case what's wrong with a nice serial port hardware controlled dialup modem. You don't need to be plugging modems in and out all the time. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
