On 09-Jul-99 Gerald Walls opined:
> A few times I've wondered why someone doesn't write a daemon/driver
> to
> replace the Windows-based programs that run these things...
>
>> Is it s WinModem?? If yes, you are out of luck: it won't work.
Because:
1. Each manufacturer (MFR) writes its own version of a driver to satisfy
the needs of the (non)modem it created.
2. No (that I know of) MFR will release source code of the drivers.
3. Some (pseudo)modems have several different versions of the drivers
realeased for variations of the kludges they've created. In these
cases a driver created for a 56K (artificial)modem model 1 that was
released last week may not work with a 56K (artificial)modem model 1
released week before last.
4. The above makes it totally impossible for any single driver in linux
to fix it for all (phony)modems created, makes it just as impossible to
make a driver for all of the different models from a single MFR, makes
it virtually impossible to even do so for a single model from a single
MFR, and without source code all work would require reverse-engineering
to overcome all proprietary voodoo the MFR used to make it seem to work
in the first place.
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Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft
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