Bill Day wrote: > I would venture to say, there is a lot less heartache in external > modems(Parrallel that is, not USB) then any internal. Some ISA's will work > flwalessy, some wont. There are a few PCI's that work, I believe one of > them is a USR. > > However, if hes giving you access through his lan, you will be better off > speed wise 8^), otherwise I suggest picking up an external USR(Parrallel) > modem for about $80.
I think you mean serial, not parallel. And I disagree about internal modems being hard. You just have to know what you're getting (like any Linux hardware). I bought a SmartLink 5634PCV (internal, PCI) - it said in the ad (and on the box) 'supports Linux'. It was about $40. (Well, I see that they have externals for about $50 so maybe the price is worth it.) Anyway, the card looks like a serial port to Linux. /proc/pci tells me what i/o and irq it uses and setserial configures it to be ttyS2. (Side note: the supplied 'driver' used libc5, so wasn't helpful, but the manual directions were so simple I don't know why they bothered.) No, it wasn't as simple as plug it in and it works. Of course I saw a guy trying to talk to his external modem on ttyS1 (he only had one serial port - ttyS0). This particular modem is V.90 only (no X2 or K56flex), so it didn't work well with one ISP who's modems don't support V.90. So if your ISP is important to you, make sure you can try your modem out with them first. Dave _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
