Alex,
> My question to you guys is the following: How
> this can be possible (under Linux) not to have
> a driver but to use my modem ? Maybe someone
> will enlighten me, because I am really puzzled...
> My external modem is this: MR56SVS-EX2 by TAICOM.
Winmodems have no "brains", so Winblows has to both
figure out what needs to be transmitted, etc., AND
it has to know how to actually work the modem. Thus,
the need for a driver. That is, the driver allows
the CPU to do all the modem's work. Lazy git. (This
is also why winmodems are so inexpensive--they're
just a shell of a modem.)
Real modems, such as your, have brains. You just
tell them what to do, and they already know how
to do it--no need for a driver. And all modems speak
a common language (more or less) which Linux knows.
So Linux says in the common language, "Fetch hither"
and the modem responds, "Right-o; on my way!"
Beauty, eh?
Miark
