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Re: Are real modem extincted ?




From: <matan@svgalib.org>
To: "Oren Held" <mlist@opinionz.cjb.net>
Cc: "Linux-IL" <linux-il@linux.org.il>
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2000 8:54 AM

> > > 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.

Well.....   the PCtel drivers won't compile with every ditribution. The
Lucent drivers won't work with all kernels.

There will always be issues with this stuff, I have tried almost every type
of winmodem and I am on the Linmodem mailing list. You are simply better off
just getting a hardware modem.

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