Ryan,
I couldn't agree more about them Win-Modem devices.
When I first started building computers here in 2000-odd, that was pretty much the only sort of 56k Modem you could get locally.
And what a waste of time they were, you had to have a half-decent processor on your motherboard or the computer would run at a snails pace.
Speaking of trying to find a modem that will run on a Linux platform, this was the one thing that held me up from actually getting into Linux, it was so hard trying to find anything that would even work with any system that wasn't Windows.
A lot of the Asian manufacturers only make devices that work within the Windows platform.
I have heard that some devices on the market here do have Tux the penguin, but it's only for decoration, the actual device will not work with Linux. [Linked Image]
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Will this software emulation problem be fixed with windows vista? Who knows.. I guess we'll find out in 5 more years when MS finally release it
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Now there's positive thinking for you.