buying a 56K modem...

Tue Dec 19 00:36:34 UTC 2006

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 19:31 -0500, Ale Alf wrote:
> Hi, i need to buy a 56K modem, and of course it should work on linux.
> Enyone can sugest me   some of them?

If at all possible, get one that plugs into a serial port (e.g. a
stand-alone modem).  Getting winmodems (softmodems) to work in Linux
is problematical at best...especially if you run in 64-bit mode.

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