SPUG: modems

[William Julien]

>Hi, Peter --
>
>Lucent, for one, has released a binary for one of their WinModems for Linux.
>If yours is a Lucent, usually known as an "LTWinmodem", this may work -- it
>works on the one built into my Compaq Presario 1930 notebook running Redhat
>6.1, Kernel 2.2.12.  A friend has a newish Toshiba model running Slackware
>4.0, though, and the Lucent driver doesn't work.

Note - Binary only kernel modules are not, and probably never will be 
supported by the linux kernel. 

Quote from Linus:

"I'm not all that interested in trying to help binary-only drivers,
when people like 3dfx are opening up their specs and their libraries
to the open source community. Why would I go to the extra work to help
people who aren't even willing to help me?"

See... http://kt.linuxcare.com/kt19991227_48.html#1

If you manage to get one of these beasts to work with linux, you are now
locked into that particular kernel. I can understand your desire to not
have to cut your losses and have to go out an buy a "real" modem. But it
boggles the mind why one would spend so many man-months of "significant
effort" to save the $50 extra it would take to get a real modem.

The real answer is... Just say no.

Buy a real modem.

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