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Re: cheesy AOpen 56K PCI Modem??? Anyone??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Mon Nov 16 13:25:13 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 09:17:21 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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Jan Carlson wrote:
>
> Jeremy Hansen wrote:
>
> > Anyone ever get one of these to work with Linux?
>
> It's a winmodem. All PCI modems are winmodems
> as far as we have seen in the last 3 months on
> this mailing list.
>
> Trade it in for an external or ISA modem that
> has jumpers to disable PlugAndPlay and set
>
> the COM port it uses. Be sure it says
>
> "Not a Winmodem" or "Supports DOS and OS/2"
>
> on the box. The DOS in W95 does not count,
>
> it has to be naked DOS with no windows in sight.
To this I would like to add that ALL external modems work
fine with DOS., OS/2, Linux, etc. Internal modems can
sometimes be a hassle (even in Win 95), but externals never
are.
The only drawback is that you tie up one precious external
serial port.
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