win-modems

[Net Llama!]

On 09/25/2005 04:33 PM, James McDonald wrote:
> 
> keith morse wrote:
> 
>> Tim Wunder wrote:
>>
>>> I've just recently left the world of broadband (a nearly $300 cable 
>>> bill will do that) and am faced with several weeks of dialup access, 
>>> until I decide on what DSL provider I'm going to go with. Can anyone 
>>> recommend a winmodem that'll work in linux? I know, winmodems are 
>>> crap, get a real modem... but I'll be using dialup for only a limited 
>>> period of time, so would rather spend $20-30 over >$100...
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tim
>>>
>>
> I have used Rockwell/Conexant chipped winmodems [ 
> http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ ] in the past but the drivers are no 
> longer open source and they want about 14USD for the full speed one it's 
> restricted to 14400 for the trial version. So I would avoid that chipset 
> despite it being on a lot of cheap winmodems.

Something about that policy seems like illegal discriminative sales 
practices.  Surely they're not charging people extra for the full speed 
Windows driver, or giving Linux users a compensatory discount to 
purchase the hardware.


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