Re: Are there real USB or PCMCIA modems available

From: Mikael Pettersson (mikpe_at_harpo.csd.uu.se)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: 25 Aug 2004 16:23:38 +0100

In article <pan.2004.08.25.12.09.04.714951@yahoo.com>,
General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote:
>My new laptop has a winmodem and it's looking pretty hopeless about
>getting it to work. It also lacks a serial port so I can't use an old
>fashion external modem. Are there any real modems available on eitehr
>PCMCIA cards or as USB modems. I get the impression that most USB modems
>are also winmodems, are there any that are real modems?

Yes there are PCMCIA modem cards that look like serial ports
and implement standard Hayes modem controls. I had one until
it broke last year. (A Psion card that came with my Latitude.)

Instead of a USB modem you may use a USB-to-serial converter
to attach to an external serial modem. The kernel's Documentation
directory has some comments about those converters.
(Some are better than others it seems.) 

-- 
Mikael Pettersson (mikpe@csd.uu.se)
Computing Science Department, Uppsala University

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