On Sun, 10 May 1998, William T Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, 10 May 1998, Marco Shaw wrote:
>
> > Just a general question about PnP modems...Are they very hard to configure?
>
> Yes. Get a non-PnP modem if possible.
>
> Even worse are WinModems, these will never ever work and you have zero
> likelihood of making it work.
>
And unfortunately it is becoming harder and harder to tell what is and
isn't a WinModem. I was looking for a new 56K modem last week and
trying to carefully avoid the dreaded WinModem. The only one that
actuallly said WinModem wass the USR Sportster, but every other
external modem I looked at had language roughly as follows:
Minimum System Requirements
An IMB-compatible computer (386 or higher) and one of the
following: Microsoft Windows (3.1x), Microsoft Windows 95
or Microsoft Windows NT. One free high-speed serial port.
Voicemail feature requires soundcard and speakers.
(This was from a Supra Express 56K--and at this point I still don't
know whether it will work without Windows) I suspect that it actually
is a real modem and will work normally with Linux (or even with my
dumb terminal or dos), but nothing in any of the included (all on CD)
documentation and nothing on Diamond's web site indicates this. I sent
a message to tech support at Supra/Diamond and suggested that they
might actually gain some market share if they indicated that their
product either would or would not work with Linux and other operating
systems, but don't expect any kind of answer for a day or two.
-ray
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