[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> No, winmodes are not supported. Only actual modems are supported. > > Well I`m no expert marco but is every Modemchip found on a Motherboard or > included into a Laptop a "Winmodem"?
I have not seen a single exception to that in a very long time. If you didn't pay extra money for it, it's a winmodem. If you DID pay extra for it, it probably is a winmodem, too, but there are exceptions there, at least... There have even been a few laptops marketed as "Open source friendly", which had...you guessed it!...winmodems which were unsupported on the OS they shipped with. Oops. That gives you some idea how hard the dang things are to avoid. > As far as I know Winmodem is a company and I always thought if I`ve read > about this "Winmodems are no supported"-stuff that it`s related to Modems > of this company. There may be a company that used the term "winmodem", but it has mostly been used to indicate any of a very large number of diverse and incompatible mostly-software modems from many manufacturers. Long before most people had heard of Linux or OpenBSD, the term "winmodem" was a non-complementary term...even in the days when people were just trying to get the dang things working in Windows. Nick.
