[ale] Winmodem useless or usable?

[Nomad the Wanderer]

  I just got a new laptop.  I was just told it's built in modem is a
winmodem.  Can I just count that out or can I actually use it?  Anyone
got any docs, etc?  I've heard winmodems are bad news in Linux. 

Robert


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Robert L. Harris                |    Windows is to Unix 
Senior System Administrator II  |      what 'hooked on phonics'
  at Great West Life.           \_       is to Shakespeare


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FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'