buying a 56K modem...

[Jean-Rene Cormier]

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 20:09 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 18 December 2006 19:31, 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?
> 
> yes, internal ones will generally be softmodems, with driver software that 
> ONLY runs on windows.  So stay with the external modems that hook up with 
> a serial cable, they are forced to have the smarts inside them.

If you are interested in an internal modem, USR still has a PCI 56K
hardware modem, model # is USR5610B it even says it supports Linux on
their page. It's more expensive (80$ compared to 20$ for a winmodem) but
it's still a bit lower than the external modems and less cables around
the computer (like we really need more).

-- 
Jean-Rene Cormier <jrc at jrcormier.com>