Yes, PCI is dandy for that, if you have lots of slots. My computer is
stuffed to the gills, using every slot but one ISA. All my high-speed stuff
(video card, SCSI card, NIC, etc) is on PCI, and the slow stuff (16-bit sound
card, modem) is on ISA. Why waste a PCI slot on a modem? If you DO, and later
you buy, say, a NIC card, you'll have to put in in an ISA slot because you've
used up all your PCI slots.
I agree that in the days of all-ISA motherboards, IRQ selection became,
shall we say, "interesting". But with half or more of the slots PCI, the few
ISA slots aren't nearly as much as a problem. Anyway, modems would go on IRQ 3
or 4 anyway, right?
On 23-Feb-99 Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> Lloyd Sumpter enscribed thusly:
>
>> One question: Why do you want a PCI modem? Do you not have any ISA slots?
>> You certainly don't need the extra speed the PCI bus gives you. A modem is a
>> great device to plug into those unused ISA slots.
>
> Maybe you need more flexibility with interrupts? Maybe you want
> to SHARE interrupts?
>
>> On 21-Feb-99 Avery Pennarun wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 09:00:16AM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>> >
>> >> Manuel Del_Estal enscribed thusly:
>> >> > We want to buy a modem to be used under linux, and nearly all the
>> >> > internal (and cheaper) modems are now PCI. We have read that linux has
>> >> > problems with PCI internal modems. We would like to know if there is
>> >> > any
>> >> > chance that a PCI modems works correctly under linux.
>> >> > Thanks in advance
>> >>
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