Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux?

From	Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.dial-up, comp.os.linux.hardware, comp.os.linux.network, comp.os.linux.networking, comp.os.linux.setup
Subject	Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux?
Date	2012-09-19 22:17 -0400
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Ant wrote:

>> Sounds like a WinModem which is only usable on Linux with a Windows
>> driver in special wrapper file.  It depends for its operation ordinarily
>> in Windows with offloading of processing to the CPU.  i looked at the
>> Linux Hardware guide and at listings for support where I found only
>> Windows drivers.
>
> Ah, that's probably why. I couldn't get it to work in Mac OS X 10.7.4 as
> well. I guess I can't use it except in Windows then. Thanks. :(

On the other hand, because they were so cheap, they landed in a lot of 
computers.  It's pretty common when I find a computer on the sidewalk 
waiting for the garbage truck for it to have such a modem.  It's rare to 
see hardware modems, especially faster speed ones.

Given that, some of the software modems seemed easier to use with Linux, 
or rather, someone took the time to deal with it.  I'm sure there's a list 
of software modems that are easy to use with Linux, find that list and 
then just look for a modem that fits.  I suspect it can't take too many 
software modems to find one compatible.

The problem is that the software modems did start taking up the market 
towards the end of dial-up modems.  People got cheap, the computers got 
fast enough, so the hardware modems were likely specifically bought.  I 
think the fastest bus hardware modem I saw was 28.8K, and I had to give 
that one up when I moved to a computer that didn't have an ISA bus.  I 
don't think I've seen any PCI hardware modems (I'm not saying they dont' 
exist, just pointing out that they became uncommon).  External modems, 
they never dropped in price because there was nothing new to come along. 
So it took some time before I could move from my external 33.6K modem to 
56K, finally finding one at a garage sale at a price I was willing to pay, 
then oddly the next week finding another one at another sale.  I suspect 
not only that fewer external (and hardware) modems were sold at 56K, but 
since nothing came along to replace them for dial-up, people must have 
kept them as backup.  On the other hand, I bought for ten dollars a 56K 
external modem a couple of years ago, I wanted a spare, and then found one 
in a pile of garbage on moving day.

   Michael

Thread

Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2012-09-19 14:03 -0500
  Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2012-09-19 12:16 -0700
    Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2012-09-19 15:42 -0500
      Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-09-19 22:17 -0400
        Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-09-20 13:50 +0200
        Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2012-09-20 15:23 -0500
          Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? "T. Dwyer" <es290@ncf.ca> - 2012-09-20 16:43 -0400
          Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-09-20 20:55 +0000
            Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2012-09-20 16:07 -0500
  Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2012-09-19 21:47 +0000
  Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2012-09-19 23:56 -0500
    Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2012-09-20 15:58 -0500
      Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2012-09-22 20:43 -0500
        Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2012-09-24 15:03 -0500
          Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? tb <nospam@example.invalid> - 2012-09-25 06:30 -0500
            Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2012-09-25 13:42 -0500
              Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2012-09-25 20:23 -0500
          Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2012-09-25 15:03 -0500
            Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2012-09-25 16:51 -0500
              Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2012-09-25 20:24 -0500
              Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-09-26 19:12 -0400
                Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2012-09-26 22:32 -0500
                Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-09-27 00:02 -0400
                Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2012-10-09 13:09 -0500
            Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-09-26 19:08 -0400
              Re: Is Creative Modem Blaster V.92 USB (DE5671 Model) dial-up modem supported in Linux? Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2012-09-26 22:31 -0500

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