Stewart Stremler wrote:
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.
Indeed. It's a pain in the rear to find somewhere to put it, but at least it's going to work. Bonus!
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 haven't seen a modem != hayes-compatible for probably 12 years.
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.
Well, you know how things go now. Instead of putting a UART and a standard DAC like old ISA modems, they put a DSP on PCI bus. Reason? DSP is cheaper than extra components for previous modems. Talk about frustration -- external modems are my only hope for having working hardware!
I wonder if I have any working external modems around?
I have one sitting on my desk at work -- I may be able to lift it or get it excessively cheap ($5 or so). LMK if interested.
-kelsey -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
