On Friday 20 Aug 2004 16:07, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> On Friday 20 August 2004 07:54 am, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> > On Friday 20 August 2004 07:38 am, PM wrote:
> > > You are using the trial version. See http://www.linuxant.com/
> > >
> > > Send Linuxant some money (I think it's about USD 15)& they will give
> > > you a serial number to run at full speed.
> > >
> > > Basically, Conexant won't release the information & Linuxant have
> > > bought a license from them to sell drivers.
> >
> > If you are going to spend $15 for the Conexant driver anyway, you would
> > be much smarter to do a quick search at http://pricewatch.com for
> > "external 56k modem" and buy one of the external cendyne serial modems on
> > sale for about $18 or even less, including shipping.  Same price, better
> > modem, no driver issues and they work seamlessly under Linux.
>
> Bryan:
> That's excellent advice for those of us who only use desktop machines, but
> what is a laptop user supposed to do? Schlepping around an external modem
> and its associated wires and power wart would be a real pain.
> -- cmg

For the laptop- a  bit more than $15 ($29 inc shipping at pricewatch) -
 Zonet 56KB V.92 Fax Modem - Intel Chipset/Hardware 

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