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Dynalink 1456VQC, £33.00 (pcmcia modem.) "http://www.dynalink.com/english/index.html"; Available from Dabs Our Dabs sales manager suggested the product and on the mfrs' web site there is a list of supported o/s thanks for the advice.... On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 7:24 pm, Neil Williams wrote: > On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 7:16 pm, Kai Hendry wrote: > > I think every USB modem should be "standard" (lets hope the manuf. > > adhered), hence by the cheapest. > > But USB modems aren't hardware/external modems, they are usually > controllerless software modems that require a Windows-only driver. The USB > modem that I won in the St.Austell raffle doesn't work with RH or Mdk. (or > Debian3) - there aren't any drivers available to configure it. (as far as I > can tell). Works fine with Windows. If you could get a USB modem that was > actually a true external (previously serial) modem, it would work with any > kernel. I haven't seen any. > > I expect Phil is using a laptop with a PCI internal modem already available > - your best solution, Phil, is to go to the linmodems site and use > scanmodem to make sure that your internal PCI modem is truly unsupported - > you are more likely to find a working PCI internal software modem than you > are to find a working USB software modem. > > http://www.dclug.org.uk/archive/msg00222.html > > > > Could some kind soul recommend an available, supported USB or PCMCIA > > > modem that works with redhat 7.3? > > PCMCIA modems are (in terms of driver support) no different to PCI or USB, > it's just that as more people have PCI, the drive or drivers (!!) is more > widespread for PCI than for either USB or PCMCIA. > > PCMCIA network cards are usually the best use of the slot on your laptop. -- Phil Vossler Electronics Workshop School of Physics University of Exeter tel: 01392 264100 fax: 01392 264111 email: p.j.vossler@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.