On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:24:04PM +1000, Martin Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I've bought myself a Dick Smith internal modem, which they claim works
> with Linux (there's a little Tux on the packaging).
It smells very much like a WinModem and the only thing I can say
"stay away from them", they do not work in Linux.
Further, from a hardware view the CPU needs to do ALL the work while usin Winmodems
while in the external modems the modem itself do the receiving and sending
and then tell the CPU via an interrupt that the buffer is full(empty) and only
then the CPU needs to fetch (put more into) it.
And with an external modem (as with any external equipment eg routers, ADSL,
ISDN, switches) you get LED's which are *EVER SO VITAL* in debugging sessions.
>
> It works fine with XP.
>
XP is a completely different architecture/"THING" to LINUX.
They do not have anything in common other than running on the same
architecture. This is comparing a truck (XP) to a Ferrari (LINUX).
Every day I used to work with two identical machines, one has Linux and
the other one has Windows running (they were TRULY IDENTICAL). The Linux box
is our internal webserver, internal gateway, internal mailserver (IMAP), Samba
server, fax gateway and MY workstation (and boy do I like to have three
different instances of Eighty Megs And Constantly Swapping (emacs)) yet
the response of everything is still crips; the windows box is ONLY used for
testing purposes and has 4 different versions of Netscape (which I
never be able to run at the same time), 3 different versions of
Internet Exploder and Opera, yet it is sluggish and the only thing
that is crisp on that box are the colours on the desktop.
The performance speaks for itself as does the stability.
Please dont say "But it works in Windows".
> I've installed the Linux driver that comes with the modem. This talks to
> the modem, but all it comes up with is "NO CARRIER".
>
> Dick Smith technical support refuse to help, "Thanks for that, perhaps I
> should have made myself clearer.We do not provide any technical support
> for Linux."
Dont buy again from them, ever, then THEY will learn quickly as more
and more people learn that Linux is THE viable option.
jobst
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