On Wed, 25 May 2011 20:43:14 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/25/2011 08:17 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 25 May 2011 07:41:38 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> >>> Camaleón writes: >>>> How can a modem be both "serial" (rs-232) and "internal" >>> >>> By having a UART on the card and appearing to the computer as a serial >>> port. I have several of these in my junkbox (all ISA, though). >> >> :-D >> >> Yep, but that's a "controller-based" modem (a PCI card that has the >> full components to achieve the modem task, all done by hardware), they >> are not called "serial modems". "Serial", in this case, just refers to >> the interface. >> >> > Those modems (I also had a couple of them back in the day) *are* serial > modems. There just wasn't a DE-9 connector on them.
(...) I do hope you understand there is a slightly difference between rs-232 and PCI interfaces. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.26.11.43...@gmail.com
