The CD drive I was talking about the other day was in a computer I'm trying to help my friend set up. I convinced him to have Linux on it; which is great.
The machine hasn't got a modem so we need to get one. Presumably its best to try and get a hardware modem but we don't want to spend more than GBP 30.
I've looked at linmodems.org and they list a whole load of fully hardware modems but most of their links are to manufacturer sites (i.e. sites which don't sell the products) or to US distributors.
The most likely chipsets seem to be Lucent's Venus chipset or a chipet called "Kermit" used by US Robotics/3COM products.
I've tried searching for some of the more likely candidates on maplin.co.uk and dabs.com but they only seem to stock a couple of devices.
So, does anyone know where I may be able to get an internal (preferably PCI) hardware modem which will work on Linux without too much difficulty?
Cheers, Richard