Re: Onboard Modem

[Hans du Plooy <hansdp-lists@sagacit.com>]

On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 20:44 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> never as good as a proper serial modem. Only if you're dealing with
> a laptop, where you can't throw away the modem inside and newer laptops
> don't have serial ports, should you consider software modems. All IMHO

For what it's worth, you still get "proper" serial modems in PCMCIA
disguise.  My Duxbury PCMCIA shows up as a stock standard serial port
- /dev/ttyS0

I think CNet (or Trendnet or something like that) still makes proper
hardware modems for PCMCIA.

Hans