Re: Win modems

2001-05-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
Chris Waters wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:13:43AM -0700, bast3d wrote: I wanted to inquire on if Debian is going to include Win Modem support? The question should really be: does anyone in the Debian project feel like supporting WinModems? My *personal* take on the matter is that

Win modems

2001-05-11 Thread bast3d
I wanted to inquire on ifDebian is going to include Win Modem support? With hundreds of thousands of Win Modems out there, I think that 'having that base covered' would be advantageous to sales to new users and experienced users that have extra modems laying that they could put to good use

Re: Win modems

2001-05-11 Thread Chris Waters
of a performance penalty on CPUs, and I would never use one, which would make it difficult for me to support. Bottom line: a) is it free enough (or redistributable enough for our non-free archives), and b) is anyone willing to do the work required. With hundreds of thousands of Win Modems out

Re: Win modems

2001-05-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Alexander Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are not there some built into some laptops like Acer and what not? What about those builtin- ones? Lucent Winmodem it says with Winblows. What am I to do? The Compaq laptop I am using now has a Lucent LT Winmodem. This works fine--with the

Re: Win modems

2001-05-11 Thread Colin Walters
Alexander Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are not there some built into some laptops like Acer and what not? What about those builtin- ones? Lucent Winmodem it says with Winblows. What am I to do? So just don't buy hardware for which only proprietary drivers are available. If you're stuck

Re: Win modems

2001-05-11 Thread Chris Waters
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 06:27:05PM +, Alexander Koch wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2001 10:49:20 -0700, Chris Waters wrote: I wanted to inquire on if Debian is going to include Win Modem support? The question should really be: does anyone in the Debian project feel like supporting WinModems?