On Thursday 29 March 2007 14:42, SOTL wrote: > Personally I think they are the best on the market but as IBM found out > they are not Linux compatible because it cost to much to make them Linux > hardware compatible for the volume of boxes they will initially sell. So > what happens is that they are designed for things like Winmodems which > makes them more competitive in the MS world. If a manufacture could > reasonable expect to get the same chip set in the Winmodems all the time > then a manufacture could reasonable create a winmodem for that laptop but > modem manufactures\s do not ship the same chipset in every modem. One could > of course replace a winmodem with a real modem if it would physically fit > in the box which it will not. That becomes a issue then of what does a > hardware do. Redesign the physical internal layout of the laptop or write a > software modem that will only be used in a very small number of boxes > before it has to be changed? > > All of this bull as you would call it plus the $1800 US is why I have not > bought a new laptop to replace the one I dropped. I just do not care about > fighting about why Linux is not compatible, or about working 2 to 3 months > to make it compatible if the new laptop's modem is not compatible with > Linux and you can bet that the newest of the new will be incompatible.
I guess you have it all covered and that the end of the discussion.... <NOT> I just brought up my TP X30 modem under 10.2 for the first time. It took me all of 10 minutes to load the pieces. I needed the smartlink-softmodem-2.x.x.x. stuff and I also loaded minicom. That was it. The commands to start the modem are: modprobe snd-intel8x0m /usr/sbin/slmodemd -alsa -c USA hw:1 & Granted, this is for my laptop but there are a lot of similar winmodems using an AC97 chip and there are also OTHER ALSA modem drivers. I think you are painting with a very broad brush without really checking your facts. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
