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Re: USR 5633 Robotics Modem in Debian



On Wed, 25 May 2011 12:41:37 +0200, Erwan David wrote:

> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:39:00PM CEST, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
> said:
>> On Tue, 24 May 2011 13:04:14 -0700, Go Linux wrote:
>> 
>> > --- On Tue, 5/24/11, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >> In this regard, old serial modems are much better than
>> >> USB ones (no drivers needed) ;-(
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> > Yes indeed. I have several USRobotics internal serial modems and no
>> > problem with Linux.  :)
>> 
>> How can a modem be both "serial" (rs-232) and "internal"
>> (pci/embedded)? I hope you didn't put the modem enclosure inside of
>> your computer's chasis :-P
> 
> Why not a PCI card appearing to OS as an UART ?
> 
> But i've nether seen one of these.

A controller-based internal modem will do the job, which is what Go Linux 
may have referred to :-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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