On Thursday 29 March 2007 14:42, SOTL wrote:
Personally I think they are the best on the market but as IBM found out they are not Linux compatible because it cost to much to make them Linux hardware compatible for the volume of boxes they will initially sell. So what happens is that they are designed for things like Winmodems which makes them more competitive in the MS world. If a manufacture could reasonable expect to get the same chip set in the Winmodems all the time then a manufacture could reasonable create a winmodem for that laptop but modem manufactures\s do not ship the same chipset in every modem. One could of course replace a winmodem with a real modem if it would physically fit in the box which it will not. That becomes a issue then of what does a hardware do. Redesign the physical internal layout of the laptop or write a software modem that will only be used in a very small number of boxes before it has to be changed?
All of this bull as you would call it plus the $1800 US is why I have not bought a new laptop to replace the one I dropped. I just do not care about fighting about why Linux is not compatible, or about working 2 to 3 months to make it compatible if the new laptop's modem is not compatible with Linux and you can bet that the newest of the new will be incompatible.
I guess you have it all covered and that the end of the discussion.... <NOT> I just brought up my TP X30 modem under 10.2 for the first time. It took me all of 10 minutes to load the pieces. I needed the smartlink-softmodem-2.x.x.x. stuff and I also loaded minicom. That was it. The commands to start the modem are: modprobe snd-intel8x0m /usr/sbin/slmodemd -alsa -c USA hw:1 & Granted, this is for my laptop but there are a lot of similar winmodems using an AC97 chip and there are also OTHER ALSA modem drivers. I think you are painting with a very broad brush without really checking your facts. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org