Re: [aclug-L] "Winmodems" for Linux

["Greg House" <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>For those who don't believe that a winmodem will work with Linux.
>Read about this in some magazine recently and decided to check it out.
> http://www.pctel.com/news/press8299.html

I don't think anyone doubted that it was possible to use a Winmodem under
Linux, just that nobody was doing drivers for them. Apparently every
winmodem is different, so every one of those weird off-brand modems would
require a different driver and none (few now?) of the manufacturers were
even releasing the specs on the HW so someone could write a driver for it if
they wanted to.

The next question is "Why?", given that a winmodem bogs your machine down by
forcing more of the functionality off of the hardware into the (host)
software. No thanks, I'd rather have a real modem.

Greg