Save yourself a lot of trouble, just pick up a USR V92 faxmodem or equivalent making sure it's -external-. Besides absolutely ensuring compatability, you can use it for a backup dialup connection on the WAN side of a broadband router if/when you get cable or DSL access to the 'net.
Good luck, Steve On June 16, 2002 10:06 pm, Chris Kenrick wrote: > I'm just about to do a motherboard upgrade, and that will mean replacing > my current modem, which is unfortunately ISA based. > > Anyone able to recommend options for a replacement? I know that the > cheaper internal modems are very likely to be winmodems, and (possibly) > unsupported, but I'm not so sure about the others. Note that even > though I've heard arguments that external modems are much better than > internal because you can see what's happening with the lights, I've > never really had trouble with the internal one as such, and not having > to find space for YAP (yet another peripheral) is a good thing. If > external is better to guarantee that it works with Linux, then that's > fine too. > > - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
