Re: PCI modem suggestions
Nuke wrote:
Hans du Plooy said :-
If* you manage to track them [internal modems] down, the ones that still
exsist cost aboutas much as an external serial modem, so why not just get
one of those?
This reaction is fairly typical when internal modems are mentioned in the
Linux world, and, sorry, I don't understand it.
No, the typical reaction is: "windmodems are crap, buy an external modem."
Which is not what I said, and which is half a truth any way. External
USB modems are often no more than the usual winmodem in a shell.
Some winmodems do work very well in linux. The Lucent modem in my
notebook hasn't given me any problems and performance is good. Conexant
HSF modems work very well too. But the OP said he doesn't want to
bother with installing drivers, so these are not options.
What I said was that proper hardware PCI modems are not so easy to come
by (damn near impossible where I live), and proper external modems can
be had for about the same price, so why bother?
Hans
Reply to: