Any external modem will work well, as you're just communicating serially. My favourite used to be USRobotics. The main problem may now be the lack of serial port on the pc - it seems to be a luxury on many motherboards these days!
Steve On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:52:01 +1200 Aaron Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I am currently in the market for an external dial-up modem that will > work with Linux (Ubuntu Linux in this case), for those that are using or > have used external dial-up modems do you have any recommendations for the > type (brand, chipset) that works better than others with Linux. I know that > with internal modems Linux has trouble communicating with windows (software) > based modems, I don't think this is the case with external modems and I have > found a few on trademe that look promising but I am interested on you > opinions on this matter. This is going to be used in a rural area which > probably won't be a permanent solution as only 2km away people have ADSL, so > hopefully that will get extended a some point. > > Cheers >
