LINK WORLD wrote:
> Internal Modem support in Linux is not presently available.
Internal has nothing directly to do with it.Virtually all external serial port
modems will work. I believe external USB modems will work if your version of Linux
and MB support USB, though I haven't tried any yet. Very few internal PCI modems
work. You're best off with an ISA modem, non Plug and Pray. Many can have PnP
disabled and IO/IRQ set by jumpers.
The problem is that most manufacturers save a few dollars by eliminating some of the
processing hardware in the modem, forcing that work onto your CPU. And they
consider the software to drive the resulting product a trade secret. Its just not
practical to try to reverse engineer it to be able to make your $50 or whatever CPU
do the work of a $1 chip.
56K internal hardware modems start in the $40-$50 range. I paid $50 for one last
month. I've paid as little as $20 at CompUSA before I knew the difference- just got
lucky.
If the box says Win modem,soft modem,lite, HSP,HCF, anything like that, stay away.
If it lists Windows 95,98 or Pentium in the requirements, ditto. If the box says
it will work in DOS or Win 3.1 that might be the real thing.
Heres a few links:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
http://www.linhardware.com/
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
Hope this helps,
Gene
