How much longer are we going to see new laptops produced with modems in
them?
I don't think it's worth a programers time to make a modem work.
I think focus should be on getting broadband available and affordable.
Cheers Don
Chris wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 13:41 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
Not sure why this has gone offlist so I'll post my reply back to the list..
Yes but the point is most open source developers don't need a winmodem so
why would they get involved in development for them?
People develop what interests them or what their employers/sponsors pay
them to develop. As most winmodem manufacturers aren't really that
interested in the open source market they are not paying linux developers..
True enough. Which does not solve the problem of a traveller with a
laptop. Hence the need for a USB to serial connector, and a hardware
modem.
I have never had this combination fail, despite where I have used it.
I did once (in error?) try a Linuxant driver with an asus laptop using
an ac97 soft modem.
Eventually gave up, as in the end the tech's at Linuxant admitted there
were modulation error's in the linuxant driver.
Cost me 30$ US too :-(
cheers Chris T
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