On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, rpjday wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Stephen King wrote:
Could someone define for me the difference between a winmodem and a regular
modem?
WinModem is missing most of the hardware that makes a modem. It's
replaced by
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 08:19:21AM -0400, Ward William E PHDN wrote:
[...]
That said, there is nothing that says a Winmodem can't run under
Linux... except that you need to have knowledge of how the hardware
hooks into the software DSP. And that tends to be proprietary.
[...]
And what
making it impossible to
develop a single LINUX driver. That's why only one or two have been made to
work...
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with a moving target, in terms of what kernel to use.
Oh well.
Bill Ward
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On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Steve Dixon wrote:
Actually our Lexmark that we have isn't.
Hmm...last I heard most of them were WinPrinters -- they are / were
very limited under Linux.
John
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On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This describes Plug 'n Play not "soft" modems
Linux supports Plug 'n Play
True. Howeve,r it's also true of "soft" modems. :-)
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On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Peter Massey wrote:
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Stephen King wrote:
Could someone define for me the difference between a winmodem and a
regular
modem?
WinModem is missing most of the hardware that makes a modem. It's
replaced by software that EMULATES the missing hardware,
Could someone define for me the difference between a winmodem and a regular
modem?
SK
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On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Stephen King wrote:
Could someone define for me the difference between a winmodem and a regular
modem?
WinModem is missing most of the hardware that makes a modem. It's
replaced by software that EMULATES the missing hardware, thus making
the processor do all the work that
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Stephen King wrote:
Could someone define for me the difference between a winmodem and a regular
modem?
WinModem is missing most of the hardware that makes a modem. It's
replaced by software that EMULATES the missing hardware,
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
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Stephen King wrote:
Could someone define for me the difference between a winmodem and a regular
modem?
SK
From one Stephen King to another (imagine that!)
winmodems are missing hardware that the windows OS makes up for. Thus
winmodems need windows to operate and don't
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, rpjday wrote:
one wonders what the next world's dumbest invention will be. winmonitors?
winkeyboards? wincd-roms? winhard-drives? god, i wish i was being
facetious. sigh.
They've already got WinPrinters. What do you think the Lexmark
printers are? :-/
John
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On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Stephen King wrote:
Could someone define for me the difference between a winmodem and a
regular
modem?
WinModem is missing most of the hardware that makes a modem. It's
Actually our Lexmark that we have isn't.
John Aldrich wrote:
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, rpjday wrote:
one wonders what the next world's dumbest invention will be. winmonitors?
winkeyboards? wincd-roms? winhard-drives? god, i wish i was being
facetious. sigh.
They've already got
This describes Plug 'n Play not "soft" modems
Linux supports Plug 'n Play
Jake McHenry [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/06/2000 03:23:27 PM
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A regular modem has hard set
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Stephen King wrote:
Could someone define for me the difference between a winmodem and a
regular
modem?
WinModem is missing most of the hardware that makes a modem. It's
replaced by software that EMULATES the missing hardware, thus making
the processor do all the work that
%- one wonders what the next world's dumbest invention will be.
%- winmonitors?
%- winkeyboards? wincd-roms? winhard-drives? god, i wish i was being
%- facetious. sigh.
Well, hrrmm... I'm reasonably certain that the next generation of external
modems which utilise the V.92 standard will be
%- How about the WinPC? It would have no hardware at all, just
%- software that
%- emulates all the hardware. Now wouldn't that upset Intel? And
%- that might
%- lead to WinMicrosoft .. .
A.k.a. VMWare ;-)
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