Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: First WinModem for Linux | Date | 6 Aug 1999 03:47:19 GMT |
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Followup to: <XFMail.990805203302.jeremy@goop.org> By author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On 05-Aug-99 Bob Lorenzini wrote: > > needs to reject win(modems) > > Modems have had horrifically crappy interfaces for years, and > "software" modems are the first step to fixing that. Having an > in-band control interface is just junk, and should be killed ASAP. > Doing all the modulation in software is a little heavy, but many > "software" modems do that in a DSP (eg, Lucent), and fake the AT > command interface in software (like the Linux ISDN drivers do now). > > The big problem with winmodems is that they don't have Linux drivers. Apart > from that, I don't understand why people hate them so much. > > OK, sorry, off-topic. I'll stop now. >
Note that the PC-TEL product is a DSP-less modem.
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