Plug and play modems

[Alexios Chouchoulas]

On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Orestis Glavas wrote:

> Exv parei ena USR sportster winmodem kai epixeirhsa na to xrhsimopoihsv sto
> Linux me ta ISAPNP tools alla kai se DOS mesv PNP configuration manager,
> alla par'olo poy 8evrhtika to modem setaretai vs IRQ3 kai address 110h, den
> mporv na to xrhsimopoihsv...Mhpvs jerei kanenas pvs mporv na toy ana8esv
> mia COM port h ti allo prepei na peirajv?

  Tipota. An exeis sxedia na doulepsis ena Winmodem katw apo o,tidhpote plhn
Windows 95, ksexna to. H zwh einai sklhrh. O logos pou ta winmodems einai
toso fthina, einai epeidh den exoun kammia apo tis leitourgies pou exoun ta
fysiologika modems. Oi leitourgies aftes ginontai mesw SOFTWARE, ston Win95
driver tou modem. Basika to megalytero meros tou high-level hardware (ROM me
Hayes entoles, controller tou modem kai ths UART, klp) leipoun kai ola afta
ginontai apo software. Epeidh afto to standard DEN bgainei paraeksw, den
yparxoun kai den mporoun na yparksoun pros to paron drivers gia afta ta
modems katw apo alla periballonta.

  Yp'opsh oti *xreiazontai* drivers, akoma kai katw apo DOS h Linux, mia kai
to modem den apantaei se entoles kai arneitai na metaferei dedomena prin
sigoureftei oti sthn allh meria trexeis 95.

  Kata ton idio tropo, oi "Windows Enhanced" ektypwtes, "Windows Printers" h
alla miasmata pou exoun to shma h to onoma twn koufwmatwn ap'eksw, DEN exoun
logikh mesa ston ektypwth. Oloi oi ypologismoi ginontai apo ton software
driver (katw apo Win95 FYSIKA) o opoios stelnei palmous apeftheias sta moter
kai thn kefalh tou ektypwth.

  Fobou th leksh "Windows" panw se hardware, ektos ki an einai AMD. :-)

  Eipe kaneis kati gia thn Microsoft???

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