Ramon Gandia wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Civileme wrote:
> > ACK, it's happening!
> >
> > The PCTel HSP is a Host Signal Processing Modem, one of the first Winmodems to
> > become a linmodem
> >
> > You NEED a DRIVER for Linux which PCTel does provide. GO to their Website or to
> > www.pcchips.com where your board was made. One of the two will have the driver.
>
> If this modem performs as poorly in Linux as it does
> under Windows, God Help Us all. Rockwell based WinModems
> are the worse of the worse. Hundreds of ISP's are
> screaming about them and pulling their hair out. The
> newest one is the HCF. That one at least does not need
> commas after the dialed phone number, but about a mile
> or so from the telco switch is about it, and then it
> acts up.
>
> Their worse feature is that while they may show a
> connect speed of 52,000, they simply do not have the
> data throughput that a real modem does at 52,000. I
> really wish a different chipset had been chosen. Of
> the WinModems, the lucent and USR do an order of
> magnitude better. Texas Instruments makes a nice
> chipset that uses the 3COM/USR protocols for X2 and V.90.
> They are not WinModems, but seem compact enough to fit
> onto a motherboard.
>
> The Rockwell chipset costs the manufacturer about $3
> to put into the motherboard....
>
> All I can say....is too bad.
Actually, the PCTel is an authentic copy of a genuine imitation of the Rockwell
Chipset, and the similarity in designation is, so the manufacturer says, an
unintentional incident. Hsing Labs, gotta admire their chutzpah.
>
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