Winmodems work in Windows plug and play systems...not even
in NT!!
Charlotte
-----Original Message-----
From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Tony Bao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] PCI Modem Configuration
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Motorola PCI PnP SM56 modem, and from the
> Win98 I can see it takes the "COM4". I searched the
> Mandrake and Redhat webpages, but didn't find out how
> to configure a PCI PnP modem.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Tony
>
You have a "SoftModem" aka "WinModem." It won't work in
Linux. It requires special software which ONLY works in
Windows9x (and maybe NT!)
Go to http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
for more information about which modems will and won't work
under Linux.
John
