Re: Winmodem?

["John C. Ellingboe" <john@guntersville.net>]

Winmodems and windows printers only work with M$ windoze.  The drivers
are proprietary and written only for m$ stuff.

John


Brent Hueth wrote:
> 
> I've just installed the base Debian system, and haven't been able to get
> my modem to respond so I can install the rest. I found a description of
> the problem with Winmodems (my new gateway has a "US Robotics 56K
> WinModem) in the Debian installation instructions, and am just wondering
> if anything has changed since that description was written. Am I really
> hosed?
> 
> Brent
> 
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