Re: [PLUG] Modem Buys

[leroy@lrcressy.com]

I don't know about any pci modems, but AOpen has an ISA bus modem that is
jumpered and will do FAX along with mgetty.  The kerney will recognize the
modem on boot.  As far as I know all PCI bus modems are WinModems.

 On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 04:53:10PM +1200, Vinord Anand wrote:
> I had posted to this list earlier about setting up my SM56 PCI
> motorola modem on my Red Hat Linux 7.3 for Internet access.
> I have since given up on this modem and would like to buy a new
> modem.I am using a Pentium II machine.
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> >From your collective experience ,which internal PCI modem
> would be the easiest and less troublefree to set up on RH 7.3
> >From my search on the web almost every internal modem
> requires quite bit of effort to set up on Iinux machine unlike
> Win machines where only a few mouse clicks are required
> to set up almost any new hardware.
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> I would like to purchase an internal PCI modem which is not
> a soft/winmodem and has drivers available and built specifically
> for my kernel version 2.4.18-3 and which won't require any kernel
> configurations or any other tweaking of the kernel to make it
> usable for dial up PPP connection.
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> Regards
> vin
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