Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Apr 1999 02:22:07 -0400 | From | Peter Avalos <> | Subject | Re: Please!! Help me to help us to use WinModems in Linux |
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At 11:48 PM 4/8/99 , Dustin Marquess wrote: >On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Richard Reynolds wrote: > >> A brief Introduction >> I am a Windoze user, programmer, system administrator. compitent in C/C++, >> Delphi, Visual Basic and more. I also am a little more than a newbe to linux >> with several computers running Windows version x and Linux mostlly using >> Lucent Viking modems. >> >> I have been trying to make these work in linux and have been reading all of >> the topics from several mailing lists with very little help until I found >> someone saying that this modem was all software driven (duh I knew that) and >> that the drivers were somekind of seceret (did not know that can't even see >> how, sence i found them?) and that they were not available. Well as of now i >> have the technology (drivers source code) to make the drivers required to >> run my modem. I can recreate the drivers for windozs make new ones for DOS >> (also not "supported" by the vendor) but i have no ability to program in >> Linux and don't even know where to start. The drivers would need to do 3 >> major things >[SNIP] > > As a side note. The various software-based modems (it seems >like it's almost impossible to buy a decent hardware-based modem >nowadays!) are unreliable pieces of crap. Most of them require about >33% of a P5/133 CPU just to run (under Windows). > > -Dustin
I'd also like to note that I've had nothing but problems from WinModems. I had a brand new P5/166 and a 3Com WinModem. The fastest transfer rate I could get out if the damn 56K Winmodem was about 100btyes/s. That's right...bytes/sec. Once I went out and bought a real modem, I now get transfer speeds of what a 56K modem should do.
Peter Avalos Doxx.Net System Administrator http://www.doxx.net/~pavalos
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