Re: [Sheflug] Modems

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

..I read somewhere the advantage of internal modems is that you're
getting a larger buffer, than a usual 16550A serial controller has...

Guennadi

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Craig Andrews wrote:

> Not enough power sockets ;-)
> 
> No, seriously. I don't know, but the person it is for specifically requested an
> internal one. Probably something to do with the above? I must admit, I always
> prefer internal modems if I can get one. So much tidier :-)
> 
> Craig
> 
> On 21-Mar-01 Richard Lowe wrote:
> > * Craig Andrews (craig [at] fishbot.org.uk) wrote:
> >> Heres a good one...
> >> 
> >> Does anyone know of a PCI modem which works --WELL-- with Linux? The machine
> >> in
> >> question has no ISA slots left, and the existing one is a WinModem (ugh).
> >> 
> >> Also, where from for the best (read, cheapest) deal?
> > 
> > Is there a specific reason it has to be PCI, and not external?
> > pretty much all external modems are support I think.
> > and they seem to be of a generally better quality (IMHO, and I'm not
> > very good with hardware, so dont trust me :) ).
> > 
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
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