[ALUG] linux newbie - help requested

[Adam Bower]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:34:41AM -0000, Keith Watson wrote:
> 
> I'd 2nd Ted's comments, get an external box if you can find one. It's
> not that easy these days finding new ones although 2nd hand ones are
> available on places like eBay.

Hmmn, dunno about that, finding decent hardware modems is pretty easy,
just the decent ones seem to cost 50 quid. FWIW after we moved recently
I had to dig out our external modem while waiting for the dsl to be
enabled, this was a US Robotics something-or-other which I'd had for 
about 5 years. After playing around with V92 and it not working I 
realised that US Robotics had released a firmware update for this modem
late last year and had made a linux compatible installer for it 
available. After a quick (well, long slow and painful, it was dialup) 
download later it just ran as a shell script and I was sorted. 
So +1 for USR equipment. 

Adam
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