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Re: Linux/Solaris/Windows on Notebook
Ira Abramov wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, GAL Goldschmidt wrote:
>
> > > Standard modems use standard interface (COM) and does not need
> > > special drivers (Gal). I guess that I have to ask Motorola (or
> > > Pelephone) whether Cellect is included in this category. Does
> > > anybody know if its MNP-10 feature is hardware-only or should
> > > it require a special driver?
> >
> > MNP-x, V.X are all software of course, but are from the second layer
> > of the OSI and the Modem run them by itself,
> > it is burned in a prom,Eprom or with the most expansive modems
> > on flash.
>
> sorry to barge in with an off-topic message, but V.X can be the speed,
> and that is DEFINITLY a Rockwell chip change, while V.42(bis) and MNP up
> to level 7 are 2nd OSI layer and up, MNP10 concerns layer 1, and DOES
> require hardware support, as it needs to controll amplitude and frequency
> corections that are NOT controllable outside the Rockwell controller.
The main point was does an OS of any kind need special software drivers,
to run an MNP-10 Modem, since all of the modem software is
layer 1&2 OSI, it does not in the control of any OS, since the OS take
it from 3 and up.
Thanks, on the Info any way :-)