[wellylug] Modem recommendations

Andrew Thompson andy at fud.org.nz
Thu Apr 3 09:17:14 NZST 2003


Hi Rose,

A quick note, your system clock seems to be about a week ahead.  An easy
way to set the time is (while connected to the net):

ntpdate bigben.clix.net.nz


cheers,

Andrew

On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 22:34, Rose McGillicuddy wrote:
> Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> 
> >>I hate to repeat myself, but have you had a look at the one Dick Smith 
> >>sell? It's a PCI modem, I use it at home (mandrake). Don't know if it 
> >>is hardware or not...
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I had heard what you said but don't consider it worthwhile goign to DSE
> >to find out, I'd almost say everybody knows they only sell (internal)
> >softmodems. However if you have one yourself, why don't you just tell
> >us instead of repeating yourself? The output of lspci will do nicely.
> >
> >Volker
> >
> >  
> >
> I was in DSE for something today and noticed they have external modems 
> there, as well as one internal one, labelled suitable for Linux.    The 
> advertisement for Terminator says 56k modem (internal), but no other 
> details.  Oh - yeah - it's preloaded with Mandrake 9.0 as Ilia mentioned 
> I think.
> Rose
> 
> 
> 
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