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Re: ISDN Cards for Linuxh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon Jul 17 19:03:37 1995
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: linux-vger@wab-tis.rabobank.nl
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 09:30:13 +0100 (BST)
Cc: aleph1@dfw.net, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <NAA07363@sys3.pe1chl.ampr.org> from "Rob Janssen reading Linux mailinglist" at Jul 15, 95 01:47:57 pm
> Of course modems like the (vapor) ZyXEL will be driven like a normal
> modem and don't need a special driver.
Some of the internal ones do this. eg the sonix board has an AT command
set interface via a genuine 16550A back to back with the boards own serial
port handler and a block oriented I/O interface.
> I think you have been lured by marketroids.
> A connection to a standard parallel port gives more overhead in the PC
> than a 16550A connection.
> Enhanced ports could do better, but you need to have one.
Very much so.
