On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 04:37:40PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 07:45:56AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > Concerning the modem, be aware that if it's an internal PCI modem, it > > most likely is a so-called "win-modem", which in my experience are > > nightmares to get working. If this is the case, I'd recommend scrapping > > it in favor of an external serial (not USB) modem, which pretty much > > "just work". > > Contrariwise, I found setting one up for my laptop to be the work of ten > minutes.
That is likely because many laptops use Lucent Agere chipsets, which work quite nicely with the ltmodem packages available at ltmodem.heby.de. Others are not quite as lucky. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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