[mythtv-users] which dial-up modem?

Scott Alfter mythtv at salfter.dyndns.org
Fri Oct 21 17:27:02 EDT 2005


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Asher Schaffer wrote:
> On 10/20/05, Chris Trown <ctrown at safe-mail.net> wrote:
>>      There used to be a time(LONG time ago when I was taking care of
>>dialup modem banks) that I pushed modems with Lucent chipsets.  These
>>days, however, it just does'nt matter.  So long as it's not a winmodem
> 
> Only internal PCI modems can be winmodems, as long as it is external
> you are fine.

There were ISA winmodems back in the day.  There are external modems that plug
into a USB port (instead of RS-232) that are winmodems.  There are PC
Card/CardBus winmodems.  Conversely, there are controller-based PCI modems
that'll work just fine with Linux.

Your generalization falls a bit short.

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