On Saturday 16 September 2006 13:46, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > Help please Heigh Ho, here we go:-
In ascending order of expense and descending order of hassle:- 0) Install Gentoo, and install the modem software using the 'emerge ltmodem' command. Cost $0.00 Hassle factor 20 You can use the binary install to hasten the install, but it's still a pretty time consuming business. Modem will work though. 1) Re-build both a recent stable kernel and the latest LTmodem sources with the same version, again reasonably recent, of gcc and install both by hand. Purists will create Kubuntu packages and install therefrom. Modem will work, at least one list member has done this successfully. http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/kernel-2.6/ltmodem-2.6-alk-8.tar.bz2 Cost $0.00 Hassle factor ~15 2) Buy an XH1154 Intel chipset modem from DSE and install. Be quick, site says: "Clearance product, stock is limited." Advantage is that you have a 7-day money back guarantee. Cost $29.98 Hassle factor 5 - You still have to install software and make it go. 3) Buy a second-hand RS-232 external modem and plug it into the RS-232 serial port. Second hand because reasonable quality 56k hardware modems are no longer made. Cost ~ $25 Hassle factor 1 - Assuming you have a RS-232 serial port, and non zero because you still have to find and buy the wretched thing. -- CS
