On Wednesday 07 December 2005 08:15 pm, James Knott wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 07:33 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Second, I'm having some difficulty locating appropriate hardware. The very common PCTel winmodems aren't supported under the 2.6 kernel.
Why would anyone want a winmodem?
External modems avoid the driver problems but are a pain to deal with.
Why?? Nothing could be simpler than an external modem. Highly recommended.
Notebook computers generally come with "Windmodems" and people don't want to haul around an external modem. My ThinkPad has a Winmodem, which runs fine in Linux.
Yes, and I have one too and it runs fine... That's not the point. If you are looking for a *NEW* modem, why pick a winmodem???????