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Re: zoom modem help

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From: mganga
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 00:00
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HI,

Winmodem is not a modem at all. It is designed to work
with Windoze. Return your card and buy an an external
Zoom modem, which works lot better and I am using it.

I guess you can look for a Linmodem driver which might
be of some help.

Regards,
/Murali

In article <2Kvk4.1414$1S.33564@news2.tor.primus.ca>,
  "Marc Deschambault" <marc@primus.ca> wrote:
> ummm as far as I know no winmodems work with linux at all.  Even if it
does
> recognize it, it can't communicate with it, because it is a WINmodem,
it's
> designed to run under WINdows...
>
> Winmodems suck anyway.. my friend who has a winmodem that's supposedly
56k,
> connects at 26400... I connect higher w/me 33.6 modem, and I connect
at
> 48000 with my 56k internal hardware modem...
>
> "Doug Muha" <dmuha@uswest.net> wrote in message
> news:tTsb4.393$%R2.16333@news.uswest.net...
> > I have a Zoom 56k PCI modem, ( yes I know its a winmodem and that it
> > supposedly doesnt work with linux) The Zoom website offers some very
> limited
> > technical advice as to how to configure your modem to work with
linux but
> I
> > must be too stupid to figure it out. So if anyone can assist me or
at
> least
> > let me know if its a lost cause I would appreciate it. I'm running
RH6.1
> on
> > an Intel P III 500 dual boot system.
> >
> >  I've run ppp and set up my dial up accounts. I believe that linux
knows
> > that my modem is there but it just doesnt know how to communicate
with it.
> >
> >
>
>


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