On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> 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.
Don't matter worse or not since a lot of people have them :-(
I want to make peoples trust on linux and I couldn't tell them your hardware
isn't supported on this platform , it's stupid :-(
Myself I doesn't support winmodem , I don't like them at all . (a frien wan't
to give me one but I didn't take it since I doesn't like no standart thingy
.....
but this is no the discution distribution need to support ALL I repeat ALL
hardwares that have a lot of buyers .
