[ale] Winmodem useless or usable?

[Chris Ricker]

On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Nomad the Wanderer wrote:

> That blows.  Mine's built in 56K.  I have a pcmcia version that
> is 33.6 so I'm not completely SOL.
> 
> If someone want's to write a driver I'll volunteer to be a guinea pig.
> 

This comes up oh, say, once a month or so on linux-kernel and lasts for
about a week until wiser heads prevail.

Basically, there is no way no how you're going to see a driver for winmodems
any time soon.  Specs aren't available, and most of the people who could do
something more difficult like reverse-engineer it aren't going to do so.  
The $20 bucks extra you spend for a real modem versus a winmodem is worth
the reduced CPU usage of a real modem.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                            kaboom at gatech.edu
                                               chris.ricker at m.cc.utah.edu