Surprisingly they actually do work, albeit V...e...r...y s...l...o...w...l...y Way too slowly to be considered usable by any standard. -- Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** <_||_> in the making of this | ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Scott Patten wrote: > > As a matter of fact it "might" work, but the only apps that would be > > able to make use of that connection would be the ones being run "inside" > > the guest OS and none residing on the host OS. And the performance is > > already bad enough to make using even VMware something that you soon > > come to the point of using only when it's absolutely a necessity. > > I doubt VMware would work for this. It's my understanding that the guest > OS uses devices offered by the host OS. I don't think that the guest OS > has direct hardware access which is what Windows needs to use a winmodem. > Direct hardware acces sounds a bit too dangerous to me. I'm pretty sure > the guest OS talks to /dev/modem, /dev/eth0, etc. VMware would have to > offer this as a special feature for this to work. I suspect it would take > a kernel patch to make the winmodem available to the guest OS. > > > It's still far cheaper and easier to purchase a new modem. > > Agreed. > > > >
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