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Linux External Modems
Name: Red Hat Craig Date: August 17, 2002 at 05:57:08 Pacific
Comment:
Can Anyone Tell Me a Good Low price Externall modem, will any external modem work with linux? or is it just a certain few.
Name: Lawrence Date: August 17, 2002 at 08:05:36 Pacific
Reply:
I used to have Creative Blaster External Modem and it was working just fine with RedHat Linux until I couldn't stand the speed, 56K, anymore and switched over to DSL... That modem supposed to be a cheapo!
Lawrence
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Response Number 2
Name: Tex Date: August 17, 2002 at 11:34:09 Pacific
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The external modem is a hardware modem...therefor it will work fine. The only modems that usually wont work under linux are winmodems. These modems are software driven and vendors don't release the specs for these modems very often.
I always loved the US Robotics external. Hayes was good to.
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Response Number 3
Name: RedHat Craig Date: August 17, 2002 at 12:23:37 Pacific
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i have a hsp micromodem that isnt compatable for linux. where can i find the driver that will run it. (im using redhat 7.3)
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Response Number 4
Name: dfx Date: August 17, 2002 at 13:03:02 Pacific
Summary: Im thinking of buying a modem, and dumping my Motorola SM56 wich had drivers for Linux but i could not make it work for me. So are all external modems compatible with linux? and are there any internal...
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Summary: Dear Stephen, I certainly are no guru in this subject but... A "winmodem" is just an empty box; nearly everthing is done by the (windows) software. Winmodems are useless under OS/2, linux or, for the ...
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