FYI: [Fwd: Mandrake newsletter: Mandrake Linux 9.2 ISOs Publicly Released!]

[Erek Dyskant]

Ken,
	Probably not.  Even if it was supported, I still wouldn't use a
winmodem on a linux box.  You're much better off just spending the
$20.00 and buying a used external serial modem.
	The problem is that winodems are basically sound cards tuned to
the impedence of a phone line, so they use the driver to do all of the
decoding.  This makes writing the driver much more difficult, and 
also uses a lot more CPU time than a conventional modem.
	I have seen some cool linux answering machines for winmodems
thoiugh, since they are quite easy to rig for use as a phone-line sound
card.
	

Regards,
Erek
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:33:02PM -0800, Kenneth Lawson wrote:
> 
> Hello Everyone;
>  Dose anyone know if Mandrake 9.2 will have better support for
> winmodems. Thets been my bigest problem. I finelly got it to see my
> modem on my Xp machine, but could never get it to use it.
> 
> 
>    Ken 
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