On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 02:34:25PM +1000, Irena & Richard Jenkins wrote: > I have an old G4 machine ... on which I want to place Debian Lenny. My > difficulty is with internet connection. I have only standard dial up access > from my holiday home and I would like to use the internal modem.
There are some implementations of software modems for Linux; you can find them on <http://linmodems.org/>. I am uncertain as to whether these are packaged for Debian. However, in my experience (of also quite a few years ago), these sources were mainly focused on Intel machines, so it won't really work on powerpc. That might've changed, though. > At one time I did try this and it came to nothing. Has there been any > progress with this ... basically the apple internal (software) modem seem > invisible to linux. > > Alternatively, I still have an old 28.8/33.6k external modem ... and a usb to > serial adaptor. Brand is Targus ... and it's certainly 'seen' by the linux. > It can be seen as something like /dev/ttyUSB0 ... or something like that. Is > this a better way to go? Yes, most likely. The USB serial adapter is probably a pl2303, which is perfectly well supported by Linux. Using it should be straightforward. Alternatively, if your holiday home isn't too far away from civilization, know that with a cell phone that has bluetooth, it's fairly easy to dial in through GPRS, too: OK AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","gprs.base.be" OK ATDT*99***1# the first tells the cell phone to where it can find the APN, while the second starts the GPRS connection. Dunno whether you are interested in this, but I thought I'd just pass it on. -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
