On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:16:25 +1200 Dale Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 There are two families of winmodems one has the whole signal processing and line control done in your CPU the other uses your cpu to control error correction/flow control skipping the cost of an additional "controller" and firmware. I do not like either but I'd live with the latter. It's all about people forgetting that our operating systems are NOT realtime, and that a system that works 50% of the time is NO good. The thing that really pisses me off is that the genious that came up with this idea to save an extra 5 bucks of controller/memory per item got probably promoted, and A LOT of manufacturers are going that way; so we -customers- have wireline devices that more or LESS work... ...by the way, BEWARE of adsl modems that DO NOT give you an ethernet port (usb and pci) ,sometimes they run on the same concept (controllerless) and rely on your CPU with not-so-nice results. cheers -- Delio (in Volker mode ;) )
