Re: US Robotics modem on fedora 5

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<hOADj.6454$%Y2.662@trnddc08>, JM wrote:

I just realized that it is a Winmodem. The model number is 5699B and the
us robotics website says that it's a Winmodem.

Yeah, that's the Analog Devices AD1807JS chipset that no one has ever
bothered to create a driver for. http://pciids.sf.net/ has a list of
six USR modems (look under '56K FaxModem Model 5610') that work as is.

Second, I would upgrade to fedora 8, but my computer doesn't have enough
RAM so it would be very slow. I can't upgrade the RAM because it has the
max on it right now.

From the RELEASE-NOTES file from FC5:

Recommended for text-mode: 200 MHz Pentium-class or better
Recommended for graphical: 400 MHz Pentium II or better
AMD64 processors (both Athlon64 and Opteron)
Intel processors with Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T)

Minimum RAM for text-mode: 128MiB
Minimum RAM for graphical: 192MiB
Recommended for graphical: 256MiB

From the RELEASE-NOTES file from FC8:

Fedora 8 requires an Intel Pentium or better processor, and is optimized
for Pentium 4 and later processors.
* Recommended for text-mode: 200 MHz Pentium-class or better
* Recommended for graphical: 400 MHz Pentium II or better
* Minimum RAM for text-mode: 128MiB
* Minimum RAM for graphical: 192MiB
* Recommended RAM for graphical: 256MiB

Doesn't look much different to me.

Old guy
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