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RE: Are real modem extincted ?
- To: Oren Held <mlist(at-nospam)opinionz.cjb.net>
- Subject: RE: Are real modem extincted ?
- From: matan(at-nospam)svgalib.org
- Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 08:54:35 +0200 (IST)
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- Reply-To: matan(at-nospam)svgalib.org
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> > It's unrelated to kernel 2.4. Probably your winmodem has a
> > (proprietary) linux driver. Search at www.linmodems.org
>
> Almost no winmodem has an 'external' linux driver. I still didn't hear
> about this 2.4.0 support.. but about the drivers from linmodems.org, the
> only REAL, open sourced driver is for lucent modems. all the others are
> binaries that works only with a specific (usually very old) version of the
> kernel.
It seems that PCtel, Lucent, and Cirrus Logic have linux drivers, which
makes most modems supported. Cirrus drivers are also free.
--
Matan Ziv-Av matan@svgalib.org
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