Re: [Cooker] winmodem? 8.0?

[Tom Massey]

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote:

> So sprach andre am Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:05:05PM -0400:
> > Almost all softmodems are "supported" under linux. You just have to run an
> > old kernel so seeing if it is linux supported is not sufficiant
>
> ? Why are old kernels better in supporting winmodems than new ones?  And,
> how old is old enough?  2.0?

It's just that most winmodem manufacturers that have released drivers for
Linux have done so in the form of binary kernel modules compiled against a
2.2.x kernel. However Lucent have put out a driver that's been seperated
into two parts so that Lucent's proprietary stuff can be linked properly
against any kernel.