On Thursday 29 March 2007 10:48, James Knott wrote:
Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Thu, March 29, 2007 15:43, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
From the 'Dell' article:
For cases such as WinModems, for which there are neither open source nor proprietary drivers available, Dell will be encouraging users to substitute a hardware-based modem. "However, we can't substitute hardware-based modems in our notebooks without redesigning and significantly increasing the price of the system.
What nonsense. Exactly how much does it cost to manufacture a hardware modem these days? And why can the hardware bits not be on a daughterboard, like the wireless, bluetooth and other bits are?
Hans
My ThinkPad R31 had a modem on a daughter board, shared with WiFi. It was a software modem that was supported in later versions of SUSE and worked well. Unfortunately, I lost that modem, when I upgraded the WiFi. However, there are single chip hardware modems available, but I don't know how the cost compares.
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