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RE: [escepticos] Linux, la ciencia y el Atletico de Madrid



Hola, hola.

Dice Borja:
> 	Con los modems es especialmente sangrante. Existe un tipo
> de modems, llamados "Winmodems" que funcionan única y exclusivamente
> con sistemas Windows. Como la electrónica de esos modems es más barata
> que la de uno convencional, todos los modems incorporados en los
> equipos ahora son winmodems, a excepción de los incorporados en
> los portatiles VAIO de Sony.

No es cierto que funcionen única y exclusivamente con sistemas windows.

Lucent ofrece un driver para linux, y según me han contado funciona.
Tambien hay gente trabajando en drivers open source
(http://www.close.u-net.com/ltmodem.html)

Tengo un modem interno (ISA) que no me ha dado nunca ningun problema. Si
llegado el momento de cambiarlo tengo la garantía de que un modelo
determinado de winmodem va a funcionar con Linux, no tendría reparos en
comprarlo (entre otras cosas porque cuestan la mitad).


Saludos,
	Carlitos

PD Los modems internos tienen sus ventajas:(http://www.linmodems.org/)

Russ Nelson writes: A lot of people claim that a Winmodem has no place in
a Linux box. I disagree. There are many applications for a Winmodem
    if you stop thinking of it as a modem, and start thinking of it as a
telephone interface: 

Think telephone emulation (put the audio card into full duplex,
and talk to the linmodem with it). 
Think telephone with a backspace key (use the linmodem to dial
for you). 
Think smart telephone: "That line is busy. Do you want me to
retry in five minutes?" 
Think "voice dialling". 
Think "soft pbx". Equip enough machines in an office for all the
outside lines. Then do IP telephone inter-office, and go to a linmodem
when you need an outside line. 
Think answering machine. 
Think pager interface. Your answering machine takes the call,
phones your pager company and pages you). 
Think "contact database with integral dialler, and answering
machine recognition". 
Think "call recording with no off-hook click". 
Think message detail recorder (basically a record of all time
spent on the phone. Great for billing.