External modems are the best least hassle way with linux(at least for dialup) On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 15:36, Jason Greenwood wrote: > With modems, it is much better to have a hardware modem (e.g. external > serial/usb modem) than a so-called software modem (e.g. Winmodem) which > relies on the OS to do some of its work, thus the slightly lower cost. > Buy a hardware modem and all your problems will dissappear. There are > really cheap ones secondhand so cost should not be a factor. When I was > on dialup (now on ADSL), I used a dynalink external serial modem without > incident for years on Linux... > > My .0002c worth. > > Cheers > > Jason > > John Wilson wrote: > > >On July 1, 2003 01:30 am, Eko Budiharto wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >>I bought a new modem, PROLINK 1456 PVC (it is detected in 9.1 as > >>winmodem). I install it, it is said that cannot be installed. Please > >>someone can tell me which modem that is compatible with 9.1 or I go to a > >>certain site that I can see a list of hardware that is compatible with 9.1. > >>I am looking forward to favorable reply from you. Thank you. > >> > >> > >>Eko. > >> > >> > > > >You could have a look on Linmodems.Org. It appears to be a fairly > >comprehensive page, though there is a broken link at the bottom which you may > >have found helpful. > > > >ttfn > > > >John > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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