[oclug] Microsoft Partners Guide to Competing with Linux

[Roger Messier]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Bill Omer was heard saying:
>Speaking of Linux marketing, I was just looking for a new modem (lighting
>struck and blew mine out of the water) and I saw an internal pci usr modem
>which says in bold letters on the box "Linux Supported!".   I didn't get to
>read up to much on the modem its self, but I'm guessing its a winmodem that
>has a Linux port of the software needed to run the hardware.   It's kind of
>nice to see more and more companies making their products Linux compatible
>(and marketing it as well).
>
>-Bill

Yeah, that's the USR 56k Performance Pro modem.  I've been using it for almost
a year, and since I got it working it's been chuging along pretty well. 
Although for some reason (maybe human error on my part), I can't seem to get it
working with any kernel above 2.4.0, but that's another story.

To correct your assumption, it's an actual hardware modem, not a soft-modem. 
The driver has been included in the kernel since 2.3.x., and Linux should
recognize the modem automagically as long as PnP support is enabled in your
kernel config.

-- 
Roger Messier
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