Mandrake is pretty nifty

i am very mad i did as you said and i found out it is a softmodem just about the same as a winmodem to linux. somebody told me that pctel has drivers for linux and i will look around for those. i got the advice of this thread to about getting a pctel or lucent but he was sold out of lucent. thanks for the help man peace.:cool:
 
Spyderman2003 said:
i am very mad i did as you said and i found out it is a softmodem just about the same as a winmodem to linux. somebody told me that pctel has drivers for linux and i will look around for those. i got the advice of this thread to about getting a pctel or lucent but he was sold out of lucent. thanks for the help man peace.:cool:
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Live n' learn :)

If you're going to be looking for a new modem then I suggest the Diamond Supra Express (internal or external). It's a very nice modem, I've been using my Supra Express Internal Voice v90 for over a year and a half now and there is no OS I've ever used where it hasn't worked.

I recommend an external modem, it doesn't use any expansion slots (no need to worry about getting an ISA slot when you upgrade your mobo), it's easier to configure than an internal modem as you don't get conflicts with com ports already in your system, you know it's hardware based, you can easily reset the modem if something happens (no need to reboot, just switch it off and back on), and you get those nifty status lights on it.
 
Actiontek 56K PCI call-waiting modem

Actiontek 56K PCI call-waiting modem

This is the modem I use. Just for reference, I've used it in DOS, OS/2, Linux, BSD, Solaris8, BeOS, Win 9x, WinNT/2K/XP, DOS, and even Linux PPC. This is a nice modem and is worth a look.
 
i have found the drivers for this pctel but i am still mad about it being a software. it performs well under windows 2000pro. linux i haven't been able to try since i installed this to see how it was. gives me a new sense that microsoft is still having ideas but linux is better due to it is free and just as secure in many ways. thatnks for the recommendation if i can't get this modem working i will try it out. could you post a link to a reseller that carries it.
 
Best Buy and Circuit City and......

Best Buy and Circuit City and......

Just about every local retailer around here carries them.
http://www.actiontec.com/
They have them for sale for like $104.
Don't do that, I paid $48 for mine in Best Buy at Christmas 99.
 
Spyderman2003 said:
i have found the drivers for this pctel but i am still mad about it being a software. it performs well under windows 2000pro. linux i haven't been able to try since i installed this to see how it was. gives me a new sense that microsoft is still having ideas but linux is better due to it is free and just as secure in many ways. thatnks for the recommendation if i can't get this modem working i will try it out. could you post a link to a reseller that carries it.
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There's no technical reason why hardware makers couldn't make soft-modems (aka winmodems) for Linux. They just need to create the proper drivers and thats it. The only reason you don't see many software modems that work in Linux is because the people who make the hardware modems dont' A) want to spend the time supporting relativly few people that most likely wouldn't buy a software modem anyway. B) They don't want to release the source code to their hardware or detailed descriptions of how their hardware works so that Linux developers could write thei own drivers.

There are software modems that work in Linux, these are cleverly called "Linmodems". There's even a website dedicated to them.
 
Be is going out of business. It's a shame, too, as I like the overall design of BeOS. I just hope they open source it.
 
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