When I was on dialup I found the exact opposite ...the modem hung the system less especially on initialisation when dialing , I was using a lucent based modem using the driver from http://www.heby.de/ltmodem (or if running gentoo emerge ltmodem :) ) the driver works with all afaik lucent based winmodems and some connexant
Cheers Dale. On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:53, you wrote: > [ winmodem stuff ] > > I got an external modem with my recent computer purchase. It was > only an extra $30 and worth every cent if you ask me. I have > a winmodem that never really worked - as soon as the CPU did > something demanding (like, say, render a webpage) it dropped > the connection. This was a pII 266 though. I had to use my > 28.8K ISA modem instead. > > Perhaps I'll bring the winmodem tonight along with my other > bits of hardware - somebody might swap something for it. I've > also got an external modem which I suspect might by 14.4K - > good enough for faxing, and an ISA network card. Will swap for > CD-Rs maybe. > > Cheers, > Carl.
