On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, you wrote:
>
> hi there everyone and anyone.
>
> the linux mandrake website does not list out modems which are supported, but rather
>states:
>
> "Most of serial modems are supported. Most of "Win-modem" are NOT and will never be
>supported."
>
> could someone please tell me if there is a list for modems supported by mandrake?
>
> thanx!
>
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First of all, posting in HTML is considered "poor
Nettiquette" in this list, as many, if not most, of us do
not use html-enabled mail clients; HTML is a waste of
bandwidth for email and doesn't look NEARLY as "pretty" on
our screens as it does on yours.
Second, as to your question, 99.999% of all standard
external serial modems will be supported by ANY version of
Linux. 99.999% of internal PCI modems are controllerless
"WinModems" and as such are not supported well, if at all,
by most versions of Linux, Mandrake included. There is no
specific list, to my knowledge of modems that MANDRAKE
supports. However, there is an incomplete list (simply due
to the fact that so many modems are coming out so fast that
it's impossible to keep up with all of them) of modems
which are "known good" in linux and "known bad" in Linux
(i.e. controllerless / WinModems.) This list exists at
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
The above list shows modems that will and won't work in
Linux. Basically your best bet is to look at the system
requirements. Shy away from ANY PCI modems (there are a
couple NON-WinModems which are PCI, but they're few and far
between!) as well as any which list ANY version of Windows
in the system requirements. Also, Linux has very basic
support for USB at this point, so I'd stay away from a USB
modem. 99.999% of standard external serial modems will work
in Linux. Period. 95%+ of all ISA internal modems will work
with Linux, especially if they have jumpers and/or dip
switches to set which com port, irq and i/o you want to use.
John
