begin quoting Todd Walton as of Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:39:23AM -0700: [snip] > Yes. I've tried a real modem and I've tried a WinModem that came with > a Linux driver. I don't have an external modem to try, but I've had > better luck there in the past.
What I like about external modems is that despite the additional box that you have to find someplace to put, and the additional three cables, it's a constrained, well-known, well-defined interface. And there's a ton of pressure for modems to support the Hayes command set. You don't often see 'em without that anymore. I find it astonishing that for _standardized_ hardware, a special *driver* would be needed. Surely special drivers are only needed for new hardware, and it should be taken as a matter of policy that anything that needs to use a supplied driver is "experimental", and you're a beta-tester. Of course, that defeats the vendor branding/lock-in, so it's not to be tolerated (unless the market demands it). I wonder if I have any working external modems around? -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
