At 11:16 AM 1/25/00 +0100, Charlie RULLEAU wrote [in part]:
>My modem is detected as "HCF Modem Enumerator" under M$. Is it different
>from HSP?
"HSP" stands for "Host Signal Processing", and it is the more-or-less
generic term for "Winmodems" ("Winmodem" is actually a trademark of USR, so
some of us try to avoid using it in a generic sense). "HCF" refers to one of
the common Rockwell chipsets used in HSP-type modems. As usual, the details
come from http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html .
People who know more about hardware issues than I argue about the merit of
the HSP concept. Some point out that properly implemented, it provides an
interface to the phoen line that is much more flexible than the conventional
UART-based modem. They argue that the problem with these devices is not
their design, but the manufacturers' unwillingness to release API information.
As to the merits of internal modems ... if people would just USE the
gromitkc database before trying to buy a modem, and follow a few fairly
simple guidelines when shopping, they would have no trouble finding internal
modems that work just fine with Linux. Then we could all go back to basing
the internal vs external decisions on the right criteria, which vary a lot
based ont eh circumstances of the specific setup.
And BTW, there are problems using SOME external modems, older ones that use
the RPI chipset ... though they are not HSP modems, they do not work
properly with Linux-based software. There are workarounds, but they are not
certain.
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