Re: USR 5633 Robotics Modem in Debian
On Wed, 25 May 2011 07:41:38 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Camaleón writes:
>> How can a modem be both "serial" (rs-232) and "internal"
>
> By having a UART on the card and appearing to the computer as a serial
> port. I have several of these in my junkbox (all ISA, though).
:-D
Yep, but that's a "controller-based" modem (a PCI card that has the full
components to achieve the modem task, all done by hardware), they are not
called "serial modems". "Serial", in this case, just refers to the
interface.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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