On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:41, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 12:06:46PM +1000, Chris Kenrick wrote: > > 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 > > It's not just the lights that make externals better, though that's a > contributing factor in what makes internal modems a bitch. Added safety > against some line anomolies and they're fast to set up. Even faster if > you didn't have an internal modem already to open the case and yank... > > Never go with internal modems if you can at all avoid it. They'll fail > you badly some day. > > Another opinion on internal modems... > http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#internalmodem > > > external is better to guarantee that it works with Linux, then that's > > fine too. > > External modems are gauranteed to work with Linux in the most painless > way possible. Being external isn't sufficient to be a quality modem, > but it is a requirement. >> Just a comment from a heathen. >> I use a lucent winmodem in my laptop, It runs fine under Debian, I got a driver from Linmodems.com and made my own deb package as there was no driver "prerolled" for 2.4.18-bf2.4 at the time I installed. As a newbie I could never get it to work under redhat as there were always too many errors of many different types.It's never hiccuped on me in the last 2 to 3 months that I've been using it. I take my hat off to the people who package the tarball. The laptop's about 4 years old and the modem runs well. Maybe it will fail one day, but I can wait till later to replace it, the convience of having it and not having to use the one pcmcia slot for a modem is helpfull. MIND you, I'm going to try installing Debian on another desktop with a Conexant modem and hold very little hope for that one...
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