> modems have always been a pain (for me) under linux, easy once you have > it going, hard otherwise.
I'm not sure whether I totally agree. Winmodems yes - the last 2 I set up for others have been a major PITA. The one before that was trivial - png - plug-n-go. It was a DSE Intel536-based modem. However, Intel was not fast with providing drivers for this chip for 2.6, so there was a period when modems based on this chip were paperweights. My own ooold ISA modem always works, but back then it did take me ages to find out that it would only work properly with X2 in the init string. Since then I always have to add it, and then it just goes. Assuming that the low-level hardware driver actually works, modems under Linux are trivial to set up (perhaps a few exceptions). If it's not under Debian, well, no comment, but don't blame Linux. The problems described in this thread are entirely distro-specific. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
