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  From: Ben Kramer <ben@webmedia.com.au>
  To  : Gareth Challis <gareth@zebster.com>
  Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 08:44:46 +0000

Re: Internal modems ...

Gareth Challis wrote:
Hi Gareth,
the winmodems actually use your cpu on the mother board to do most of
the work. I would recommend that you buy an external modem.
To give you an idea of how good win modems are, IBM recommends when
having problems with their winmodem/soundcard that you rip it out and
replace it with a real modem and a sound card....

Ben.....  
> 
> > Hi Gareth,
> > just a quick question, what type of internal modem is it ?
> > ISA, PCI etc......
> 
> PCI Sportster Winmodem ... unfortuantely :(  Somebody else mentioned these
> won't work - I guess that's no problem though as I don't generally need
> dialup access from the linux partition ...
> 
> would have been nice, but not essential.
> 
> I assume the comment about Winmodem was correct ? (Being called 'Win' modem
> and all that ;-)
> 
> Thanks for the responses,
> 
> G.

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