Can Ubuntu handle winmodems?

[Matt Egger]

By "pilot" do you mean "driver"?  I had to read this a few times before I
caught your meaning.  Sometimes I'm slow.

-ME

On 1/16/06, J.Markoll <j.markoll at free.fr> wrote:
>
>
> If it is not possible or if no pilot exists, you might invest in a cable
> to connect to a gateway. That's what I'm doing for my laptop that don't
> have a serial port and no pilot available for it's winmodem (one
> existed, it was fit for 2.2 kernel and was described as functionning
> averagely bad, then I decided to try, but the link was dead... )
>
> Winmodem pilots have to be fit to the kernel. Kernels versions run
> faster than winmodem pilots.
> I don't know the correct word for this cable. It's fit for this use.
> It is very cheap, too and most efficient, with an easy to run procedure
> (with ipmasq on the gateway, I even ran it several days in a row with
> Knoppix running the gateway... ).
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