Why you don't want winmodems

Friday, October 20. 2006

Why you don't want winmodems

My laptop has an internal modem I rarely use. Currently it's one of those moments. It is a so-called winmodem that is no real modem, but just a sound device with a splittet driver: An in-kernel alsa one (free) and a proprietary daemon emulating a modem.

I wondered why some tasks that have nothing to do with network were slow as hell. Now, I knew that it just emulates, but I never thought of that:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND

30458 root      RT  -6  4384 4384 3588 S 17.3  0.9   8:37.33 slmodemd

Posted by Hanno Böck in Computer culture, English, Gentoo, Linux at 00:02 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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I've been thinking about getting an external USB modem. I know there's an in-kernel driver: CDC ACM that can be used with them. Do you know of any v92 models that fit the bill?

#1 Eric Bohn on 2006-10-21 08:18 (Reply)

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Why you don't want winmodems

Friday, October 20. 2006

Why you don't want winmodems

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