Re: modem for potato

[Gerard Robin <jag.robin18@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 08:44:19PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Gérard writes:
> > When we buy a modem we get the driver for this modem but unfortunetly it
> > is for windows not for linux.
> 
> External modems do not require drivers.
> 
> > My problem for the moment is to find a second-hand modem which works fine
> > with a 486 and potato.(i.e. such that potato contains the suitable
> > driver)
> 
> External modems do not require drivers.
> 
> > If I was able to write a driver...
> 
> External modems do not require drivers.  They merely require appropriate
> configuration.  I suspect that the modems you were unable to get to work
> had their internal registers loaded with wonky values so that they did not
> respond properly.  The fix for this is to connect to the modem with a
> program such as minicom and reconfigure it.

Many thanks for your explainations which are very helpful.
I am an ignorant ;-)  
-- 
Gerard