On 6/26/2011 7:12 PM, g.linuxducks wrote:
> In short what I meant is you are saying the common dial up v.92 modem built
> into all desktops only works with Windows and not Linux ? ? ?
> I find that too extraordinary to believe as the desktop came in off Unix. It
> was developed to support all systems for connectivity and the Ethernet Card
> can run a 10/100M broadband connection - that is up to 100M per second -
> since the when ? Windows 95 ? Somewhere in there. It will probably be
> another 100 years before we get 100M dsl although the machines are built to
> deliver that kind of speed.
We must live on different planets.
None of the five working Desktop/laptop computers I have at home, or the
machines in my in-house server rack:
http://robertwittig.net/workshop.html
...have any sort of built-in telephone dial-up modem, not Linux, not
UNIX, Not Windows 2000, Vista or Windows 7, on my netbook.
I DO have a drawer-full of of dial-up modem cards in my spare parts
drawer... I used to need them, before ethernet became common... mostly
the US Robotics Sportsters, which are hardware modem cards, and are
Linux friendly... just plug the card into a slot, plug the phone jack
into the card, start the computer, and, assuming you already have a
compatible 'send-expect' script in play, you are good to go on-line.
--
http://www.robertwittig.com/
http://robertwittig.net/
http://robertwittig.org/
.
No comments:
Post a Comment