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- From: james@amber.biology.gatech.edu (James McIninch)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Sportster PnP + Linux: Does it work?
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- Date: 29 Jan 1996 21:15:15 GMT
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- Paul S Secinaro (pss1@hopper.unh.edu) wrote:
- : I will probably be buying a US Robotics Sportster 28.8 internal modem
- : soon (found it on sale for $150 and got a rain check), and I'm
- : wondering if anyone has had any problems with this device under Linux?
- : I ask because USR now advertises that this modem has Plug 'n Play
- : capability, and I've heard that Linux has problems with some PnP
- : devices like network cards. My gut feeling is that it's probably not
- : a big deal, but has anyone actually used one of the newer USR's with
- : Linux?
-
- I use one at home. I didn't risk the PnP though, as PnP doesn't work
- particularly well under Windows 95 either. I simply jumered the card to an
- IRQ and COM port and used it like any other PC card. It works just dandy.
-
-
- : -Paul
- : --
- : Paul Secinaro (pss1@christa.unh.edu)
- : Synthetic Vision and Pattern Analysis Laboratory
- : UNH Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
-