On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 09:50, Andre Pang wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:46:10AM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: > > > You could have saved some money if it's a Lucent based Winmodem as they > > work well with the linmodem drivers developed by the people at > > http://www.linmodems.org/ > > Please don't go around promoting OS-dependent hardware :). They
Since he already had one, and it could work, he could have saved himself some money. Why pay more than you have to? I would like to put pressure on h/w manufacturers to support open sourcing drivers for their hardware. Since so many laptop manufacturers supply winmodems, and they are cheap, they seem to be a good product. It is support from manufacturers or open sourcing of their drivers that needs to be encouraged. For my laptop it is convenient to have a very small built in dual winmodem/NIC which keeps my PCMCIA slots free (what for I don't know though ;-) > may work well _now_ for you, but but those drivers are a PITA to Yes, a lot of work seems to have gone into developing the drivers. > maintain, keep up-to-date, and you have sometimes have to wait > for quite a while to get them working with the newer kernels. The source code of the ltmodem driver has worked with both 2.2 and 2.4 kernels for me. > They also work via source code wrappers around manufacturers' > binary modules, which can cause more problems in the future. I don't believe that this is the case with the ltmodem driver. > > Plus, they only work with Lucent WinModems, which are by no means Not sure but my experience is with Lucent. However, the source docs do say there have been problems with some winmodems as you say. Anyway, back to work... -- ************** * Simon Wong * ************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
