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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