USR external faxmodem on RH9

[Rick Stevens]

moey tony wrote (reformatted for bottom posting):
>>Sorry about that.  As I said, go buy a modem that plugs into the serial
>>port.  First, it'll be compatible with ANYTHING (windows, Linux, BSD,
>>Macs) and second, it'll be faster than a winmodem is (since winmodems
>>depend on the CPU of your machine to do a lot of the work rather than
>>doing it themselves).
 >
> Sorry to drop in like this,(and pardon the ignorance) but does that mean that it is a sure thing a serial modem is definitely not a winmodem? i have come across a modem brand, Aztech, which doesn't state whether it will work with linux.

Yes, that's correct.  A serial modem CANNOT be a winmodem.  For one
thing, there's no way for the CPU to feed the modem the DSPified sound
data over a serial port fast enough to make it feasible.  That alone
removes it from the winmodem category.  If the modem says
"Hayes-compatible" or something along those lines ("standard AT-command
set" perhaps), it's not a winmodem and will work under Linux quite
happily.
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