[G4] PCI Modems in a G4 PCI slot? Will it work? Will it damageanything?

[M Hood]

I can say with 90% certainty that it will not work in a Mac. One of the
reasons why they're so cheap is that they are controllerless, hence one less
part->low price. It's paid for by increased CPU utilization. I wouldn't even
put a PCI modem in my PC. I had a really nice ISA one, and my new
motherboard ASUS P4PE has no ISA slots, so it's back to the old Sportster
33.6 for backup use. (I now run a cable modem) PCI modems just suck, in my
experience. Maybe you could find a cheap USB modem instead? I hear they work
pretty good with the mac. In fact, the modem built into my girlfriend's FP
iMac is USB. Works fine.

Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Erdman" <jperdman at earthlink.net>
To: "Power Macintosh G4 List" <G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 4:18 PM
Subject: [G4] PCI Modems in a G4 PCI slot? Will it work? Will it
damageanything?


>
>
> I've just spent a couple of hours without finding a definitive answer for
> this.
>
> 56K PCI V.90 US Robotics modems (and other brands too) seem to go for
pretty
> good prices on e-bay. And I'm in need of getting a new modem.  But I can't
> find any information as to whether these devices will operate on my Mac.
>