[99792] in RedHat Linux List
Re: "Winmodems" (Support in Linux)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David E. Fox)
Tue Nov 17 01:06:54 1998
From: "David E. Fox" <dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:05:04 -0800 (PST)
Reply-To: dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com
In-Reply-To: <3650B46A.726F3347@nook.net> from "Ramon Gandia" at Nov 16, 98 02:25:30 pm
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> Keep in mind that most iinternal modems do not have serial ports.
> It is kinda stupid to put a UART in an internal modem. Think
> about
> it for a minute. In a regular external modem, you NEED a UART to
Agreed, for the most part. The particular internal modem I've
been using for a couple of years now (a USR Sportster 33.6) has
its own UARTS, and for good reason -- at least on the system
I used to run it on (PB) before I upgraded. The PB only had the
cheaper UARTs (i.e., not the 16550) and worse, they were
soldered on to the main board.
So in that particular instance it made sense to get a new
internal modem, since it had the newer 16550A UARTS with the
bigger buffers.
By the way, on that particular machine, Linux was able to
service the serial port (no 16550) at full 9600 bps speed;
Windows could not. I guess I'm glad we didn't have winmodems
back then :).
> My advice is: Use an external modem and then you are SURE it is
Definitely - at least nowadays.
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