Dial-in server with FC

Gavin Henry ghenry at suretecsystems.com
Thu Jul 14 22:19:45 UTC 2005


On Thursday 14 Jul 2005 19:13, M.Hockings wrote:
> Gavin Henry wrote:
> >>So unless someone has a good idea how to get the modem in either of
> >>these boxes to talk with Linux I'm planning on rebooting the FC3 box
> >>into Windows and setting it up there.  Less reliable I know but I know
> >>it can talk to the modem.
> >>
> >>Mike
> >>
> >>BTW, as a reference I saw that a modem like the Intel one sells for $12
> >>with Windows drivers & extra goodies.
> >
> > Just grab a 3Com U.S Robotics 56K one off of ebay.
> >
> > If you can't find one. I'll sell you one for $18 (£10~) plus postage, as
> > we have around four sitting for the next server we setup for Out-Of-Band
> > access.
>
> Thanks for the offer Gavin, I appreciate it but I expect that this place
> would want to buy new.  On the bright side I think I may have found a
> Trendware external modem in the $40 price range.  In any case I have to
> put this on hold for a while and attend to some more pressing stuff
> right now.

No probs.

>
> Would any of the internal USR modems be OK or just the external serial
> versions?

Any of these (internal/external) work a treat on Linux:

http://www.multitech.com/PRODUCTS/Categories/External_Device_Networking/

Go for a MT5634ZPX-PCI-U @ ~$99 if possible.

Gavin.

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