Grant wrote:
I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet
via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also
wondering about dial-up. Does it work well on Gentoo? Should a
laptop's internal modem work, or would I be better off buying an
external one? Has anyone found dial-up to be a useful method of
connection while travelling?
- Grant
This is going back a few years, I haven't had any experience recently. A
lot of modems used to be referred to as Softmodems, those that depended
hugely on the operating system (very often Windows). Those modems were a
bitch to get working under linux. We used to have to make sure we were
buying hardware modems. A lot of internal modems were Softmodems and
were pretty useless for linux.
As I say, this may be totally out of date now, but it's possible you
won't get an internal modem working under linux. If this is the case,
you will have to buy a proper hardware one.
Hope this gives a little bit of info.
~Matt
