On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 12:06:46PM +1000, Chris Kenrick wrote: | I'm just about to do a motherboard upgrade, and that will mean replacing | my current modem, which is unfortunately ISA based. | | Anyone able to recommend options for a replacement? I know that the | cheaper internal modems are very likely to be winmodems, and (possibly) | unsupported, but I'm not so sure about the others. Note that even | though I've heard arguments that external modems are much better than | internal because you can see what's happening with the lights, I've | never really had trouble with the internal one as such, and not having | to find space for YAP (yet another peripheral) is a good thing. If | external is better to guarantee that it works with Linux, then that's | fine too. My perspective/opinion : 1) external modem is "real" and complete, not "win" 2) ISA modems were all (or mostly) made before the "win" craze 3) PCI modems -- look for the word "win" in the packaging/documentation or mention of specific drivers or windows operating systems. I actually have never had a PCI modem. All the modems I have are either external or ISA, and only some have even been tried in linux (and those that were tried worked perfectly -- it's just a serial port after all). HTH, -D -- If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to. -- Old Irish Saying http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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