Meir Faraj wrote:
>>> 1) some of us (unforunatelly) have winmodems,
>> Where do you live? I'll dig out an external 56K modem and snailmail it to
>> you if the postage ain't too steep.
> winmodem work with mandrake 7.2?
Probably not. Probably requires a kernel patch. AFAIK only one kind of WinModem
(maybe Lucent?) is supported. WinModems are a very bad idea. Wide high-latency
CISC processors should not be doing byte-wide frequent-interrupt I/O. That's
what dirt-cheap microcontrollers are for.
They're an even worse idea under Windows, which is why they suck so much and NT
doesn't support them. Under 9X the modem driver often loses out in the latency
roulette (high error rates on a good line, random hangups), to say nothing of
Windows itself locking up, and NT simply can't guarantee them appropriate
service time, plus they're a reliability/security hazard - as if Windows need
more of those. Linux can't make guarantees either (except RT flavours), but it
plays roulette much better than Win9X.
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mullins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> please send info on this
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