Klaus:
Winmodems are designed to work under windows and depend on
the Windows OS & the CPU to carry some of the modems workload. As
such you will need a high speed CPU such as Pentium-166 or higher
(the box will say so, most of the time).
They won't run under Linux. Most DOS terminal programs won't work. I
think there are one or term. programs which can run with those
modems.
The older PCs had ISA slots (8/16 bit) on a mobo with a bus transfer
rate of around 12Mhz. The bus speed in the newer mobos (late 486s
and up) is around 33Mhz and the slots look like ISA 16bit but
shorter (and usually different colour). They are the new standard.
You cannot swap controllers from ISA <->PCI.
A normal modem is an ISA 8-bit creature and fits comfortably even in
an XT. There are some 16 bit ISA modems with(or without) PNP
feature. They dont have jumpers/switches to select IRQs and COMM
ports. Comm ports and IRQsare automatically assigned by the
operating system (wiz; Windows).
There are some newer modems coming out in PCI configuration. Form
what I read, keep away from them like plague. They are prone to all
sorts of problems.
Regards
Harsha Godavari
Klaus Peter Wegge wrote:
>
> New on the market are socalled win-modems.
> They are internal pci-cards.
> They come with special drivers for win95-98-NT,
> but do they work with DOS and Linux? Are there any
> drivers know?
> What is the difference to a "normal" internal modem?
>
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