On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Patrick Lickiss wrote:
> Well, after some work I finally got RedHat up and running. Now my new
> problem(they never stop do they?): How to get my modem set-up? I started
> this set-up and found out the hard way that I have a winmodem, which, as I
> understand it, will run under Linux when Hell has frozen solid.
aside from the standard "lucent drivers", there are quite a few winmodems
that work under linux. the effort was delayed by the death of the main
programmer, but it's been picked up, and there's now support for quite a
few.
> After
> discovering this, I proceeded to go online and buy a hardware modem(PCI
> since I don't think anyone really makes ISA anything anymore, and if they
> do I can't find it). Well, it arrived today and I got it in my ox only to
> find out that Linux can't find it.
ooops, patrick. PCI modems are almost all winmodems. :)
on the bright side, other than modems and sound cards, i can't think of any
common modern devices which are ISA.
pete
