Bob wrote:
>
> Greetings - As a real newbie a dumb question. I appreciate what has
> become to be called the WIN MODEM which will only work with WINDOWs
> because part of the modem activity is being performed by the driver
> software which is specific to that OS. Given these modems are some what
> cheaper and seem to work just as fine is there a LINUX driver to do this
> modem "function"? Maybe such a bit of software is being considered.
> Seems such a need exists.
>
> Or, am I missing the point here?
>
> Thanks for the read.
>
> Bob
Actually those Winmodems *don't* work as well as a real modem. A
Winmodem creates a large load on the machine's CPU. That's due to the
controller that's present on a real modem being removed on a Winmodem.
To make matters worse the manufacturers of those Winmodems generally
won't release the information needed to write a driver. Even if one
particular Winmodem could be figured out, chances are that every
different Winmodem will require a different driver.
Now, after all that there is a spot of possible good news. There is a
group that is working on the Winmodem problem. The URL is:
http://linmodems.org
Not much there yet, but it seems the group is recently created.
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