Messages in this thread | | | From | "Anthony Barbachan" <> | Subject | Re: WINMODEM driver | Date | Wed, 21 Oct 1998 01:25:26 -0400 |
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-----Original Message----- From: Bob Lorenzini <hwm@netcom.com> To: Henning P. Schmiedehausen <hps@tanstaafl.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 11:19 AM Subject: Re: WINMODEM driver
>On 20 Oct 1998, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > >> I have a notebook with onboard modem. What should I do, rip it out? > >Not necessary. Disable and insert pcmcia card. You do have a pcmcia slot >don't you? A friend just plugged his notebook with internel modem into >some system where it did not belong. Repairs on this brand name would >take weeks, for this reason and others I will avoid purchasing notebooks >with internel modems and would never buy a win_anything. I just bought >(2) 56K pcmcia modems at Frys for $79US each. The difference between >winmodems and real modems is now only a few dollars, hardly worth all the >work involved in what would probably be a futile effort to get a majority >of them to work with linux. IMHO, being the DS that I am. :-) >
Prices at a recent computer show:
ISA 56K X2 regular modem (cirrus logic): $40 (cheapest: not well know company (good web support though)) PCI (ISA same price range) 56K v90 Modem (WinModem I think): $27 (cheapest: generic but from a well know company)
While the price difference is only a few bucks, the difference in price is about 30 percent (to 50% depending on the brand). Certainly significant especially when setting up a bunch of computers. And this price difference can becomes greater as you go for a name brand modem. (Especially at retail prices) USR WinModems can be gotten for about $50 while their real modem cousins go for about $100. Thats about a $50 difference; enougth of a difference for many people between having a modem and not having it. That said I agree with you that WinModems are a piece of cr@p; however I'd still like support for it. Note: customers do not like rebuying equipment that they assumed that they already owned. They usually suspect that you are trying to rip them off on billable time and equipment.
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