I have that USR PCI voice/fax/modem iin my system. It works great. With the
2.2.x Kernel series, I had to run setserial on it to associate the hardware
parameters to the device special file, but with 2.4.x, it just works
auto-magickally. The only thing that threw me was the fact that it gets
called /dev/ttyS4, but now Mandrake finds it, and I don't even have to worry
about that. As for using an external modem, what about folks (like me) who
have other stuff to do with their serial ports (exempli gratis: Palm cradle
and UPS?)
-Charles
Thus spake Hoyt, on Sunday 20 May 2001 15:05.
> On Sunday 20 May 2001 02:06 pm, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> > USR makes a very nice PCI voice/fax modem that works with Linux;
> > you need to do some fiddling with the serial ports to make it work
> > (see the Modem-HOWTO) but otherwise it works fine.
> >
> > The key is to get the "hardware modem" which retails for about $120
> > and not the "software modem" that retails for about half that amount.
>
> If you are going to spend that amount of money on a modem, purchase an
> external serial-port modem. They _all_ work with Linux. As a bonus, you
> free up a slot in your PC.
