On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 05:38, M.Schild wrote: > > The moral is, if you must have a WinModem, get one with a Lucent > > chipset. I haven't found one yet that I couldn't get to work with the free > > driver, and the whole modem costs less than the Conexant driver. > > I find the Linux distros should put on warning on their boxes saying use a > ext. modem. Imagine someone who decides to buy a computer without an OS and > an internal modem .He decides to install Linux but the modem is not > detected/supported. How do you get to download a driver without a functioning > modem? > When I bought this machine, they sellers told me I would have no problem with > Mandrake and the int. modem ( I don´t have Windows). I am suspicious and > still had my external one....so they could send me a driver. > Maryse > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Maryse: There are _some_ internal modems that work quite well with Linux -- without drivers. The tricky bit is finding them. We're still running an old Zoom ISA internal modem on my wife's computer (her motherboard has an ISA slot; mine doesn't.)
And, FWIW, some external modems are Winmodems, especially USB types. -- cmg
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