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Vincent Janelle (malokai@gildea.net)
Mon, 10 May 1999 13:37:00 -0700 (PDT)
If its a PCI modem, it is a winmodem sa far as linux is concerned.
There is only *one* PCI modem that is supported under linux, and the
company itself wrote it.
I hope you're not planning on playing quake3 with that thing =)
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On Mon, 10 May 1999, Ya`akov N Miles wrote:
> I couldn't resist going to London Drugs and buying a Packard Bell
> MultiMedia 880C. Bought 64 meg SDRAM, 300 mHz Cyrix MII processor,
> 16.8 gig IBM hard disk. Comes with 32x CDROM and Integrated Sis 5598
> Graphics (whatever that is, is it supported under XF86?) Supposed
> to be stereo Soundblaster Compatable. Standard serial port(singular)
> parallel port, and PS/2 mouse. Also contains a 56K V.90 modem which
> the salesman assures me is NOT a winmodem. Bundled with 3.5 gig disk preloaded full of
> MicroCrap WinBlows 98 stuff - and no they won't nuke the software for a
> rebate - grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Hell, they won't even remove the 3.5 gig disk.
> I guess I will have some fun with Partition Magic 4.0 - sure glad I bought
> the program, and oh yes, my US$15 rebate cheque finally arrived...
>
> My next crazy idea if I can't get David Michelson's donated monitor to work,
> is to buy a monitor and two ethernet cards, and see if I can get the two
> computers talking to each other over a local area network, better than
> running Telix under MS-DOS on the Packard-Bell and using the serial line...
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