Brett Dikeman (brett@artelsoft.com)
Sat, 17 Apr 1999 19:48:06 -0400
>Can a telepath for windows modem be used outside of windows?
If it's the "dumb" kind that needs windows drivers to emulate a
modem, then it will basically never work; some use onboard DSPs that
don't have firmware and have to use drivers loaded, or they use the
CPU of the system itself(even worse, because the rest of the system
suffers.)
This doesn't mean that all DSP-based modem cards will not work. Most
non "el-cheapo" cards have onboard firmware that contains all the
instructions it needs to mimic a modem over the phone line, and it
appears just like a normal modem to the rest of the system.
The Winmodems are infamous in intel-linux circles, particularly with
laptop people since this modem has become extremely popular with
laptop manufacturers, probably because the cost is lower. Hear the
words "winmodem", walk the other way.
Modems should be so cheap it shouldn't matter. Buy a big name modem,
or even better...buy an external; rarely will an external modem fail
to work with your system, and they're hot-pluggable :)
Brett
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