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Date:      05 Oct 2000 22:11:31 -0400
From:      Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com>
To:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Lucent modems question
Message-ID:  <87em1uzpkc.fsf@tea.thpoon.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001004223929.B32669@hades.hell.gr>
References:  <20001004223929.B32669@hades.hell.gr>

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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:

> > Lucent seems to have released a winmodem driver for linux.
> 
> Oh.  Since this was brought up.  Has anyone user such a beast on Linux.
> I am just curious to see if the driver trying to cope with the crippled
> Winmodem beast, is as resource hungry as it seems to be on Windows.  One
> would expect that emulating a "real" modem in the driver would cost a
> few extra CPU cycles, or memory, or other system resources.

I have it on my Thinkpad 240 laptop.  In fact, this is the only reason
keeping me from installing FreeBSD there. ;^(

I have only used the modem to call in a BBS, but I haven't noticed any
abnormalities with CPU load.
-- 
Arcady Genkin
Don't read everything you believe.


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