[Techtalk] PC card modem/non-powered external modem wanted

[Gebhard Dettmar]

On Monday 20 June 2005 21:19, Akkana Peck wrote:
> Carla asked about modems for a laptop.
>
> [...]
>
> My laptop has a Conexant HSF chip in it which works with the Conexant
> linmodem driver. The HCF chip support is more recent and I haven't
> used an HCF-based modem myself, nor a Lucent-based one.
>
> I suspect the Conexant isn't as fast as the pcmcia modems,
> but I've never tried to do timing tests (modem speeds are so
> dependant on phone line quality and the modem on the other end
> that it would be hard to do useful tests).
I have HCF on my PC (from my brother, not that you think I bought such a 
device ;-) and used the beta drivers that I found for free with google. 
The Linuxant drivers were IIRC 20$ and for that money I'd get a real modem 
as well. But I have Win2k and debian woody and at least I can say that 
they aren't slowlier than the Windows-drivers
>
> Linmodems.org has some compatibility charts, I think, and so does
> http://start.at/modem
>
> 	...Akkana
Regards Gebhard