Drivers Hardware

[RW]

On Monday 13 June 2005 16:20, Juan Palacios wrote:
> bought LINSPIRE and it installed everything except
> modem, tried over 3 modems and NOTHING. 

Most cheap modems are  winmodems. These are modems that offload a lot of the 
signal processing from hardware into drivers.  The drivers are typically 
windows only, hence the name winmodems.

I understand there has been a lot of progress in making winmodems work under 
Linux (see <http://linmodems.org> ), but things are a lot easier if you use a 
proper hardware modem.