[olug] Linux modems was:Next meeting, next Tuesday?

[Irv Cobb]

Cameron Hill wrote:

>The box has firewire,usb
>and serial and parrallel ports. From what I have gathered I need an outboard
>or hardware  modem. I live too far from town to have anything but a dial-up
>connection. I do not do t.v. and don't want cable. I have no Eisa slots,
>only PCI. What workhorse of the industry is the modem to buy for a 56k
>connection? If it is internal it has to be PCI to work with my motherboard.
>  
>
If you're in a real bind for money, DIT has a PCI Conexant winmodem for 
about $10. There are
Linux drivers for it. They're in beta, but work pretty good. I'm using 
them on a couple of my
machines and really have no complaint other than occasional dropped 
connections.

Irv