At 01:03 AM 10/12/2000 -0400, William T Wilson wrote: >On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > >> > It turns out that I have a lucent winmodem which will not work on Linux ( I >> > have done around 2 weeks of research on it !!). So I have to buy a new > >A very few winmodems will more or less work nowadays. Of course they suck >just as much under Linux as they do under Windows. But I have no idea >which these are. Try www.linmodems.org. > >If you really do have to buy a new modem, any modem which supports DOS, or >OS/2 will work, as will any external serial modem. But external modems >usually cost a lot more. > And external modems are very groovy in many other ways.
for instance if your phone lines are vulnerable to lightning strike the modem will cook (as opposed to your motherboard)
