[TriLUG] ___ at mindspring.com____

[Vestal, Roy L.]

Sounds like a PNP modem with hardware control.  That's the main difference
between a WinModem and a real one.  The Winmodem doesn't have the onboard
hardware to handle communications, it relies on the software to control the
TX/RX and flow control for the modem.

One of the problems with PCI modems is that your OS has to "assign" the IRQ
for the port and the I/O address for it.  As we all know, PCI1 was not that
stable in this arena, and was really only good for video and some NIC's.
PCI2 was supposed to handle this better and with PNP BIOS's it was supposed
to leave the slot assignments in NVRAM so at next boot they would be the
same.

I don't know if Linux addresses this, so I don't know if a PNP PCI "non-Win"
modem is possible, or if it would be supported under Linux.  The kernel
guru's out there will have to answer that question.

-----Original Message-----
From: al johson [mailto:alfjon at mindspring.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 12:44 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] ___ at mindspring.com____


The brand is "SmartLink" and the model # is 5634PCV SurfRider.The box says
it supports DOS, Windows and Linux. I figure since it works with DOS that
the probability is high that it is not a Winmodem!!
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Bryan <tbryan at python.net>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] ___ at mindspring.com____


> On Sunday 28 October 2001 01:29 am, you wrote:
>
> > modem. I have a new PCI modem which says on the box that it does work
with
> > LINUX.
>
> What modem (brand/model)?
>
> > There is some sort of file necessary, apparently, but it has an .EXE
> > extension??? Now I've never seen an extension on any driver file nor
have I
> > seen an exe extention on a Linux file.
>
> Copy it onto your Linux box and see what sort of file it is.  Some
examples,
>
> $ file /bin/ls
> /bin/ls: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically
> linked (uses shared libs), stripped
>
> $ file /usr/sbin/netcfg
> /usr/sbin/netcfg: Bourne shell script text executable
>
> $ file /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/idle/idle.py
> /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/idle/idle.py: a python script text
executable
>
> $ file .Xmodmap
> .Xmodmap: ASCII text
>
> $ file /usr/local/Photos/dcp_0303.jpg
> /usr/local/Photos/dcp_0303.jpg: JPEG image data
>
> $ file mv90_DT031264.dat
> mv90_DT031264.dat: data
>
> The "data" designator is used for files that are of an unrecognized type.
In
> this case, it's a packed binary file of interval electric meter data.
>
> ---Tom
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