On Wednesday 15 September 2004 09:06 am, Eric Scott wrote: | On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 13:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| > U.S. Robotics 56K Faxmodem USB | > Model No. USR5633 | > | | > My Computer is old - it's a Dell Dimension XPS T600 | > 600 Mhz Sheesh, my best box is only an 850. | > 20 Gig - Hard Drive | > 128 Mb - Ram More Ram would help--a lot. | > Dual boot with Windows 98SE I'm sorry!! | > I have no idea about the Motherboard. | > | > I would be grateful for any advise or help. | > | > Sean | | Hey; don't feel bad! I'm using a home-built 233MHz comp with 96MB of RAM | and all that good stuff. :-P One of my boxen is a P200--lots of Ram, though. It's just o.k. with kde, but excellent with Xfce. I booted a P233 laptop with only 64 megs of Ram with a Damn Small Linux disk--it was great with the Fluxbox provided. | | Your modem is probably a "winmodem" which basically means it's a modem | made to work with Windows. Somebody out there may have come up with | drivers to make it a "linmodem" (Work with Linux), but even if there is | winmodems are buggy as a rule. (I should know, I've got one) Your best | bet is to get a new modem that's not a winmodem, and the majority of | external modems fit the bit. Actually, I've found the Winmodems with Lucent chipsets to be excellent and I won't hesitate to install one--but there aren't any drivers (at least officially, last time I checked) for the 2.6 kernel. PCTel and Conexant are a real PITA. Beware of USB modems--many are Winmodems. Serial modems always work, straight away--no messing around. Someone posted a link a couple of months ago for a serial for $18, US--if you are somewhere in North America. That's about the same price as a Winmodem. e
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