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From: Aaron Campbell (aaron
monkey.org)Date: Tue Feb 13 2001 - 11:23:59 CST
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Erich wrote:
> For reference: PCTel is a "winmodem", ie a software modem, and is
> built-in to the Sharp Actius and many other notebook computers.
Can people please not ask this anymore? I think it's been asked at least 3
times in the past week on every mailing list. In fact, I just responded to
one yesterday.
WINMODEMS ARE NOT SUPPORTED. It is clearly noted under the 'Unsupported
hardware' section of i386.html. And the mailing list archives are speckled
with replies of this nature.
On that note, I really wish we had a comprehensive list of known-working
PC Card modems and Ethernet cards. But there are so many clones that it's
hard to cover the whole spectrum. Our dmesg logs are helpful, but PCMCIA
CIS info does not often give you the as-advertised/marked vendor and
product names for the card.
No one is going to apologize for lack of Winmodem support (blame the
genious who invented them), but something can be done about documentation
or lack thereof for viable, working alternatives (i.e., PC Card modems) so
users can make informed purchases.
--- Aaron Campbell (aaron
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