On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:51:25PM -0400, dtutty@porchlight.ca wrote: > I'm building a new computer (Etch is installing over dial up now), > but all my modems are internal ISA. So unless I want to have to fire up > my 486 just to dial out, I need a new modem. > > The MB has a serial port and I have 3 PCI slots, a PCI-E x 16 and 2 > PCI-E x1 free. (Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe AMD AM2, Athlon 3800+, 1GB ram, lvm > on raid1 dual 80 GB Seagate SATA drives). > > What is the current wisdom for a solid reliable modem? Should I go > external via the serial port or internal? Is USR still the defacto gold > standard? > > As far as the computer itself goes, the only advantage of an external is > that the bios has a power-on on ring via external modem. I don't think > I need that. Internal or external, prepare to spend in the neighborhood of US$50 to US$100 for a modem. The reason is that you want a hardware modem, not one of those crappy winmodems. As long as go with that, you should be OK. I seem to remember about two years ago being in a discount electronics store and picking up a box for a USR modem, about US$65, and on the list of supported OS's, it included Linux 2.2.14+, or something like that. So, they are out there. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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