Re: Inexpensive modem

[Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm it ntu edu au>]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 06:15:43PM -0500, Mike Foley wrote:
> 
> 	Any modem that's a "REAL" modem and not a 
> 	Winmodem should work fine. PCI or ISA.

All my reading suggests that PCI modems don't work.

Eg the Modem HOWTO. http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO

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2.5.  PCI Modems

  A PCI modem card is one which inserts into a PCI-bus slot on the
  motherboard of a PC.  Unfortunately, it seems that most PCI modems
  will not work under Linux but efforts are underway to support some of
  them.  See  ``PCI Bus Yet Supported''
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There is some information later on on how you might help write a driver for a
pci modem.

> 							mike
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Praveen Srinivasan [mailto:psrin0@pop.uky.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 6:11 PM
> > To: axp-list@redhat.com
> > Subject: Inexpensive modem
> > 
> > 
> > Does anybody know of a relatively inexpensive modem that works with
> > alphas?
> > 
> > 
> >                                                               
> >   Praveen
> > Srinivasan
> > 
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