On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:47:18 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:21:44 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Camaleón wrote: ... > >> Uh? A plain USB or a PCMCIA/Smart PC card (being both hardware based > >> modems) will do the job quite well. Anything is better than an embedded > >> modem. > > > > Plain USB has to be cdc-acm (full serial device) to work in Linux. > > Finding them is not that easy in some parts of the world, and most are > > not produced anymore. The smartcard ones are even worse. YMMV. > > Yes, I know. But there are companies (Zoom or USRobotics) that still make > that kind of modems and they work with Linux. > > Some links: > > http://www.zoomtel.com/products/dial_up_external_usb.html > http://www.zoomtel.com/products/dial_up_pc_card.html > http://www.usr.com/products/modem/modem-product.asp?type=specs&sku=USR5637 > > And those came from well-know companies, there should be another unknown > modems that are also working with Linux. It requires a bit of digging but > sure there are. And Ebay is a great source for used, cheap gear of this sort (i.e., quasi-obsolete). Last time I checked, USR Sportster serial modems were easily available for about $10-$15 (USD - shipped to the USA). Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110624100811.d10bc254.cele...@gmail.com
