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[andrew clarke]

On Fri 2009-03-13 09:24:59 UTC+1100, Martin Barry (marty at supine.com) wrote:

> Linux (and in turn Ubuntu) handle old style external modems just fine. It's
> just another serial interface and everything "just works".
> 
> The issue is so called "win-modems" where they save money on the hardware by
> implementing functionality in software. Therefore, without the right driver
> and firmware, they are effectively useless.
> 
> Very few of these provide Linux drivers and very few have been reverse
> engineered to get an open source driver working.

Linux & FreeBSD support (some?) Lucent Winmodems these days.  I'm not
familiar with the details though.

Having said that, I'd still prefer an old full-bananas external modem.
They can be found quite cheaply, especially second-hand, although they
never seem to last very long in my personal experience.  Maybe I just
had a bad run.

>From memory, US Robotics were the Rolls Royce of modems back in the
BBS days.  :-)