>tom strickland wrote:
>tom....tell him to buy an external serial modem (not usb).

No! Soon it will be difficult to buy motherboards with ISA slots. No ISA 
slot -> no ISA bus -> no serial port. I need a future proof modem, as he 
will be upgrading his computer within the year. Personally, I would go for 
external (serial) and keep my current linux box as a 
gateway/masquarading/firewall box for the house network - but that's just 
me. My friend needs a PCI or USB modem that works under Linux. I know that 
PCI modems are more difficult to get working under linux (check out 
http://serial.sourceforge.net), and that things might get better under 2.4. 
Hence the question. Thanks for all the suggestions for known working pci 
modems (and the serial ones too), but:
a) it can be harder to get hold of these in the UK, with different model 
numbers, etc
b) I am curious about the more general issue of pci modems under kernel 2.4

thanks,
tom

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