Linux-Hardware Digest #218, Volume #10 Wed, 12 May 99 14:13:40 EDT
Contents:
Re: File system for NT and Linux ("Tim Kelley")
Re: using old HD at ATAPI-Port (killbill)
Re: recommend server hardware for 2.2.5 ("Scott M. Grim")
Re: CD-RW's for Linux (Swietanowski Artur)
Zip 250 and parallel port: (root)
Re: X-windows on Voodoo3!!! HELP!! (Greg Yantz)
Re: sound (Supratim Sanyal)
Re: making linux go away ("Jan Johansson")
Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Quantum Fireball ("Scott M. Grim")
Re: SGI 320 Visual workstation (bryan)
Re: List of multiport Ethernet cards supported. ("Scott M. Grim")
Re: LINUX and AMD K6-3D NOW, ANY PROBLEM? (steve)
Re: What is the best modem to use with RedHat 5.2? (gus)
MS Serial Mice ("Mark Swope")
Re: SCSI Problem (Daniel Ganek)
Re: What is the best modem to use with RedHat 5.2? (killbill)
Re: removing cooling fans--how dangerous? (Peter Schneider)
Re: Trident 3Dimage specs or XF86 (Andrew Comech)
irq dma and device address ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SUN Keyboard -> PC (Daniel Schramm)
Change target no. on boot disk. (Soccer_no_15)
CD-RW's for Linux (donald-martin)
Re: [Q] Is Amquest 56K V.90 PCI modem compatible with Linux? ("Neil Koozer")
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From: "Tim Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: File system for NT and Linux
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:10:47 -0500
Wolfgang Ganzert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> I want to use WinNT 4.0 and Linux to share the same data partition on a
> disk. (size 9GB). The problem is that Linux does not support NTFS in the
> "normal" distribution of the Kernel 2.036. On the other side WinNT does
> not recognize ext2fs from Linux.
> For FAT32 a special driver for WinNT is needed. Also the file attributes
> rwx from Linux ar not supported on the FAT32. This is a problem when
> running shell scripts from FAT32 on Linux.
>
> What would be the best solution to share the large data?
FAT, because the permissions won't get screwed up; there isn't any other
way. NT doesn't recognize too many filesystems. Kernel 2.2 does support
NTFS read-only (R-W is experimental).
You might try to look for some third party driver for NT that let's it read
ext2 - I think I remember hearing about this at one time.
The ideal way is to share via smb over a network.
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From: killbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: using old HD at ATAPI-Port
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 15:20:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ekkard Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to fix my old HD (Pio2 ?) on my second ATAPI-Port (No
> master-slave configuration, the second ATAPI-port is unused now.)
Does
> my old and slow HD impact my first one , 3,4 GB Pio4 ?
>
> thanks in advance
> Ekkard
On my motherboard (VIA chipset) I can turn on and off UDMA support
seperately for each of the two IDE channel/bus/port/whatever. This
means I can have my primary master and slave as UDMA devices, and my
secondary master and slave as legacy devices.
I think on Linux in general that any slowdowns will happen on a channel,
and that seperate channels should not interfere with each other, but
that is just my opinion.
That being said, for normal use I have not seen a compelling difference
between UDMA and the older IDE. This would probably not be true for
disk intensive applications like databases or large scale web serving,
but for the normal Linux user, you probably wouldn't notice much of a
difference even if your IDE bus did slow down, unless you went out of
your way to look for it.
If it hits the disk cache, its really fast. If it hits a UDMA disk it
is really slow. If it hits an old non-udma disk, it is really really
slow. "Really Really slow" is seldom noticably different from "Really
slow", so if you have the disk and need the space, I would throw it in
regardless.
--
Bil Kilgallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
--"I believe, what I believe, has made me what I am. I did not make
it, It is making me, it is the very truth of God, not the invention
of any man". Rich Mullins, quoting G.K. Chesterton.
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From: "Scott M. Grim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: recommend server hardware for 2.2.5
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:21:07 -0400
For data storage on that type of system, I'd recommend a Raidking Arena 400
IDE-SCSI RAID (www.raidking.com). They run about $2600 and get very good
throughput and are very reliable. We put those on our system with 13 GB
UDMA drives in them using RAID level 5 and have no problems. We connect
them to the servers via Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Adapters. We use Maxtor HDs in
them, but since it's RAID 5 and supports a hot standby, the reliability of
the drives themselves become much less significant.
Recommendation on the Ethernet card: Do NOT get 3com 3c905B NICs. We were
using 3905s throughout our network until they replaced them with the B
revision and now we have all kinds of problems with anything that we try to
run in full-duplex mode. We're in the process of switching to SMC
EtherPower II (SMC9432TX) NICs.
I'd also recommend using 512MB RAM. At the current cost of RAM, it's a very
inexpensive way to significantly increase your server performance and avoid
potential problems with resource shortages.
Scott M. Grim
Director of Systems Engineering
Calltech Communications, Inc.
Hannu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> We are planning to build a heavy duty server running Linux 2.2.5
> (redHat6.0) and would appreciate some hardware recommendations.
> This box will run httpd, sendmail, radius and bind
> So far we plan to set up:
> - Acer BXD Dual Processor Motherboard,
> - two PIII 500 MHz
> - 256 M RAM
> Could you recommend:
> - SCSI adaptor ?
> - ethernet card ?
> - hard drives (e.g. 2 x 9gig)
> Hannu
>
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From: Swietanowski Artur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-RW's for Linux
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:27:25 +0200
donald-martin wrote:
> I am considering buying an HP 7200 CD-RW, (...)
Not exactly an answer to the question, but...
I don't know what are your reasons for considering CD-RW. I was
giving it serious thought, and in the end decided to get a Fujitsu
640MB magnetooptical disk (available in ATAPI and SCSI).
The MO drive beats CD-RW in convenience (random access, just like any
HDD on the system), speed (ca. 4 MB/s reads and half that when
writing), rewritability, possibly shelf life (something like 10 years
advertised by the manufacturer),
Price of media (here in Austria) is comparable, so is the price of
the drive. Media are (IMO) better to handle - just a thicker 3.5"
floppy, with all the ease of operation.
All versions (SCSI and ATAPI) work with Linux.
Hope this was useful,
=====================================================================
Artur Swietanowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut f�r Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfahren,
Universit�t Wien, Universit�tsstr. 5, A-1010 Wien, Austria
tel. +43 (1) 427 738 620 fax +43 (1) 427 738 629
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Zip 250 and parallel port:
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:31:14 -0500
I'm getting closer. I have formated a zip 250 disk I thing. I can't
access my drive though. I use rmmod lp and then insmod imm which engages
my zip in RedHat 6.0 and assigns it sda4. The problem I'm having now is
that sda4 is not accessible. I can't mount it because it does not have a
mount point. It also is not read as a block device either. I'm not sure
where to go at this point.
thanks for all your help.
steverl
p.s. I've read the pages at torque.net.
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From: Greg Yantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X-windows on Voodoo3!!! HELP!!
Date: 12 May 1999 12:50:53 -0400
fingers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Sekar wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have a voodoo3 3000 AGP card in my machine. I recently installed
> > Redhat linux 6.0 on the system.
>
> It's probably too new to be supported yet, I suspect you'll need to wait
> for the new server (Check out www.xfree86.org)
It is a little too new for XFree support. There is a beta server out there,
though. I haven't tried it myself, so I can't comment on quality. The
URL is:
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/
Look around, it's worth a read. There are now even RPM's available, for
those interested.
> or better still, ditch your 16 bit card and get a decent 32bit card
> like a TNT (or wait for the TNT2 ;)
TNT/TNT2 look like they have a better feature set, but right now Voodoo3
seems to lead on price/performance. Matter of personal preference.
-Greg
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From: Supratim Sanyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:55:25 -0400
> I have a 1938 ess solo-1 sound
^^^^ !!!!
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From: "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:16:08 +0200
Why delpart? fdisk can remove a linux partition.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:00:53 GMT
Same problem but I'm using KDE.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"dpc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thought I might share my bad as well:
>
> Upgraded to RH 6.0 from 5.9.7 - Everything seemed to go well. I
logged in,
> started X and was in Gnome. After a few minutes of using it (had some
> terminals open, netscape had been open/closed, etc) I tried to start
another
> terminal, and it wouldn't work...Tried to start netscape, no go.
Tried to
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From: "Scott M. Grim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:30:30 -0400
I personally recommend against buying ANY Quantum drive that you plan to put
in a server that will be working hard at all. Every Quantum drive we have
ever installed in any of our HTTP, DNS, NNTP, or SMTP servers has died
within 6 months. They just don't seem to have the quality to endure a
server environment.
Since we use *mostly* SCSI, I can't recommend specific drives, but we have
had very good luck lately with Western Digital drives. The only thing we
use UDMA for is our IDE-to-SCSI RAIDs and we use Maxtors in those. We have
had some failure, but Maxtor is very good about RMA without a hassle. We
just put Western Digital 20GB drives in one, but it's not in full production
yet, so I can't speak for the reliability of them.
--
Scott M. Grim
Director of Systems Engineering
Calltech Communications, Inc.
Drew A. Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does anyone know how well quantum hard drives work under linux? I have
> heard that the Bigfoot drives have problems. I'm thinking of buying a
> Fireball Plus KA. It's a EIDE Ultra ata/66 drive, either 13.6 or 18.2 GB.
> I just wanted to find out if anyone knew of any problems. Also, does
> anyone have any suggestions for other large drives?
>
> Drew A. Dunn
>
>
>
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SGI 320 Visual workstation
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:41:59 GMT
Saif Warsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hello,
: I am thinking of purchasing the subject referenced machine and have the
: following questions :
: 1. Is the Cobalt graphics chipset they reference supported by any X
: servers (commercial or XFree86) ?
in dumb frame buffer, yes. smart accel - not yet.
: 2. Will these X servers be able to drive the really nice flat panel
: monitor ?
yes.
: 3. Since these machines come with NT installed will it be possible to
: setup a dual boot NT/Linux box ?
I think so.
see www.linux.sgi.com for more info.
--
Bryan
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From: "Scott M. Grim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: List of multiport Ethernet cards supported.
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:09:04 -0400
The only card I have been able to find that is readily available and has
good driver support in Linux is the ZNYX ZX346. It's a 4-port 10/100 full
duplex NIC. See www.znyx.com for more details.
Adaptec has replaced their multiport NIC originally made by Cogent with a
new one that doesn't offer Linux driver support yet. Matrox seems to have
unofficially discontinued theirs. You can still find them at some
resellers, but Matrox doesn't seem like they're really into selling the
things.
Russell McOrmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am looking to purchase a (minimum 4 port) ethernet card for a Linux
> server (Running Kernel 2.2). While I can find a list of chipsets, I am
> looking for specific card brands/etc which I can then tell my hardware
> dealer.
>
> Is there a list somewhere of such cards that I have just not been able
> to find yet?
>
> Thanks.
>
> ---
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> Vote both progressive and conservative http://www.flora.org/?green
> Political Forum http://www.flora.org/flora.action-forum/
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From: steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LINUX and AMD K6-3D NOW, ANY PROBLEM?
Date: 12 May 1999 09:31:53 +0100
Reply-To: steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> I wolud like to buy a Amd-K6 350 Mhz, but I do not sure if it is
>> completly compatible with linux,
>> and what is the optimal main board for this combination.
>> Somebody knows if there is any problem?, and what are the differences
>> with P-II of intel?,
I've been using a K6-2 300 for ages and it wors fine.
Wehen I went looking, the FIC-VA503+ was a good board
(for an AT case). Apparently the new 2013(?) is also
excellent. www.super7.net (or is it .com?) have some
good info.
Steve.
--
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is the best modem to use with RedHat 5.2?
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:33:27 +0100
Just thought I would be obscure ... ;-)
The easiest modem to install, configure, and use *has* to be a Cable
Modem.
Plug it in to a network card, and bob's your uncle. Route it up, and
masquerade, and you're in cyber-heaven.
gus
Russell Savio wrote:
>
> I'm looking to buy a new modem. Does anyone have a brand/model that they
> recommend for use with Linux? I would love to have an easy installation.
>
> Thanks
>
> Russell
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From: "Mark Swope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MS Serial Mice
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:22:14 -0500
Can anyone who's solved this problem help me?
I've installed Linux (v2.0.29 - going to upgrade to 2.0.36).
When trying to setup XFree86 v3.3.3.1 using XF86Setup,
the mouse jumps all over the place. It seems best behaved
at the 1200bps setting. The sampling rate doesn't seem
to help and most of the other "protocols" at the top either
don't change anything, or completely lose the mouse.
I've tried two different MS mice and the both have the same
problem - both are proven to work under other machines
(and other OSes :-P ).
SetSerial is enabled to to setup /dev/cua0 with autoconfig
for the usual suspects. The I/O card is a generic that worked
while the box was a Win95 box.
I *did* notice that the jumping occurs when I move the mouse
in the vertical direction, and only with "normal" speed. If I move
it **VERY** slowly it usually works.
Someone has had to have seen this and fixed this before!
Thanks for your help.
mas
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From: Daniel Ganek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI Problem
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:11:32 -0400
Mykool wrote:
>
> I hate to ask this question to this group, but there are so many people
> here that know their stuff. So here goes...
>
> I just got my new SCSI card, Adaptec 2940U2W. Everything works ok
> except for my scanner. My scanner is a Umax 1220s. Here is my setup:
>
> ID0: NEC Cd-Rom (terminated)
> ID1: Panasonic CD-R CW-7502
> ID3: Umax 1220S (terminated)
> ID5: Iomega Zip 100
> ID7: Adaptec 2940U2W
>
> If I plug my scanner in, nothing is detected. Without it connected,
> everything else is detected. I'm connecting my scanner with a 25 to 50
> pin cable. I have an adapter to give me an external 50-pin connector.
> Everything is on the 50-pin connector. I'm thinking I have some a
> termination problem, but my settings haven't changed between my old card
> (Intraserver 3140U). All help is appreciated.
> --
What's your PHYSICAL layout? It almost looks like you have two
devices terminating the same cable segment.
/dan
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From: killbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is the best modem to use with RedHat 5.2?
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:48:14 GMT
In article <7hae78$hrl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Russell Savio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking to buy a new modem. Does anyone have a brand/model that
they
> recommend for use with Linux? I would love to have an easy
installation.
>
The Creative Labs Modem Blaster (despite it's silly name) offers a V.90
PCI modem with jumpers to override the PNP voodoo, great documentation,
is readily available, and probably retails at around $70. It is also
has voice capabilities under win95 if that sort of sillyness is
important to you.
I got mine at my local Best Buy. There are doubtless other fine modems
out there at good prices, but this one is perfect for Linux, is
reasonably priced, is very easy to install, and you can probably find it
locally with about 10 minutes work.
It took me about an hour pouring over modem boxes in the store to figure
out which ones were winmodems, and which were not junk. CompUSA did not
have any non-winmodems for less then $90, but Best Buy had the Modem
Blaster for $70.
--
Bil Kilgallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
--"I believe, what I believe, has made me what I am. I did not make
it, It is making me, it is the very truth of God, not the invention
of any man". Rich Mullins, quoting G.K. Chesterton.
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From: Peter Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: removing cooling fans--how dangerous?
Date: 12 May 1999 19:39:48 +0100
In comp.os.linux.hardware Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Brian McCullough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
: Alternatively, get one quiet small computer with minimal disks (maybe a
: laptop), and use networking to connect to the big computer in the basement.
: You could even remove the disks altogether and do a floppy/netboot.
Hi,
that's what I did for the P90 in the library at my department - remove the
harddisk, boot the linux kernel from floppy and mount the root fs via nfs
from a server. You can then either run applications locally (slow, but
little network load) or remotely via the VNC client if you have a fast
server.
In order to reduce noice from the fans, I put a really large heatsink on
the P90. Then, I hooked up the power supply fan and the CPU fan in series
instead of in parallel, so that the fans run at 6 volts only instead of
12. I reckoned that heat buildup within the case would be a lot lower than
with a harddisk constantly spinning. So far, the thing has been working
fine for seven months. (I use a timer to turn the PC off during night
time.)
The combination of those measures makes a virtually noiseless workstation.
So far, no student has complained (the PC is located in the study room).
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: Trident 3Dimage specs or XF86
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 May 1999 13:41:05 -0500
On Wed, 12 May 1999 07:44:49 -0500, steve epstein wrote:
>Does anyone know the settings for the Trident 3Dimage 985(0)?
>I have X up and running, but only in a VGA mode. Will it emulate any of the
>existing Trident cards?
Try
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/3DImage975.html
I guess it will help you with 985 as well.
I'd appreciate a followup on your experience...
Best,
a.
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: irq dma and device address
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:43:44 GMT
hi,
how do i fnd out the irq, dma and device addresses of my hardware
peripherals on linux (2.0.3)?
tia,
--me
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From: Daniel Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SUN Keyboard -> PC
Date: 12 May 1999 13:21:22 GMT
Hello,
does someone know how to connect a SUN Keyboard to a LINUX-ix86 System?
Thanks
Daniel Schramm
--
Daniel Schramm
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://fs.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~daniel
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Change target no. on boot disk.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Soccer_no_15)
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:47:12 GMT
Hi,
I used to have 3 disks in the system, the 1st two disks (sda & sdb) are
for DOS and the 3rd disk (external - sdc) is for Linux, after the
kernel is built, I 'dd' the zImage to floppy so that when I want to get
on Linux, I power the external disk and boot the kernel from floppy
(so that my son won't crash Linux file systems).
Now, I'm building another system for my son, I pull one of the DOS disks
out (Linux now is sdb), eventhou, I replace every "sdc*" to "sdb*" in
/etc/fstab, Linux still won't boot, complaining "can't mount root fs/par-
tition. What else do I have to do? Please help, I don't want to lose
all the data in the Linux drive!
Thank you.
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From: donald-martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-RW's for Linux
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:30:35 GMT
I am considering buying an HP 7200 CD-RW, but I see on their website
that they only have software for Win 98 & NT. I am reluctant to buy
unless I can be sure it'll work with linux. Anyone using it? or any
other CD-RW's? Your feedback is appreciated.
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From: "Neil Koozer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: fj.os.linux
Subject: Re: [Q] Is Amquest 56K V.90 PCI modem compatible with Linux?
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 08:47:27 -0700
Proceed with caution.
Tigerdirect lists an Amquest 56k V.90 pci, which is described as a hardware
modem, but it doesn't tell the model number.
www.amquestmodem.com lists a few models, but I couldn't find a 56k pci
hardware type, but they do list an ISA hardware modem.
Also remember that some hardware modems don't work without a specific
driver.
Neil.
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