On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:17:30PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: > As for the actual installation and configuration, most recent > distributions have full USB support. Getting a USB modem going should > be just as painless as serial.
one other thing to consider is hardware support, although your machine now may have USB ports, in the future if you get more keen you may wish to setup a separate machine for dialing out, firewalling, sharing the internet connection etc. These are often old retired PCs (eg. 486 or early pentiums) and may not have USB ports. I prefer normal serial modems cos they've been around a lot longer and work with any machine or OS. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
