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
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