Windows is doing something extra with modems. I upgraded from a motorola 28.8 to a hayes 56k v.90 (externals). Now I would expect that any two external modems would look about the same to the computer. Infact I had to do NOTHING to get linux to dial out and connect to my ISP with the new modem. But my windows machine (two computers sharing a modem with a switch box. But when linux uses the modem, the windows machine has access via the lan) detected that there was a new modem attached (had the modem powered up before the computer), and asked to install the new drivers. Then when I tried to dial out to my ISP it gave the error message (can't find the modem). Hmmmm, I found the dialup network properties for my ISP connection and changed the setting from motorola modemsurfer to hayes and then it worked. So windows must query the modem first to find out what it is, and then do some special stuff. Maybe I should borrow a line montitor from work and see what the two of them are talking about!
====================================================== Just recently there was a posting here that said they got better connection speed in Win95 than in Linux. A couple of days ago I heard another Linux say the same thing. And so far, on a hamm box, I can only get 19200 out of my 28800 pc card modem. Is this typical of Linux, or is it just an improper init string or etc? Th _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
