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
Not want but "it came with the notebook" and end-users just want it to work. Actually, winmodem support is something end-users just expect to work. They won't take the "get an external modem" argument and a few of them take quite a while to grasp the fact that most manufacturers don't supply Linux drivers. Don't forget we are talking of quite a few boxes out there than can be converted to SuSE or any other Linux flavor and that already have winmodems... Now, if someone could get a "WinModem Wrapper" going like the NDISWrapper project... :) Salomon