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Is there any work in progress to add support for winmodems to linux??

Thanks

Michael

No.  Winmodems do a lot of the processing using software (Windows
drivers) instead of hardware like normal modems.  They are designed to
be cheap.  Also, none of the manufacturers bother to publish any details
of how to interface with them, so no one can write Linux drivers for
them.  If the details were published, I'm sure someone would write a
driver no matter how much the modems suck, but I'd recommend just
avoiding Winmodems, ever for use under Windows, because they use extra
CPU time.

    Is there any work in progress to add support for winmodems to linux??

It will be a matter of someone convincing one of the modem manufacturers
to release enough information to do this.  And then later, to get other
manufacturers to follow suit.  Since that's a political/economic issue
and not a technical one, who knows when (or if) this might happen.

Without technical information, LINUX support is not feasible, and so for
all practical purpose, the answer is NO.

So, call them 'LoseModems' and forget about them for a long time, if you
can.
                        -- KD6PAG  (Networking Old-Timer, "F newbie")