[wellylug] A real newbie needs help - internet connection

[Peter Jones]

My understanding of external modems - the entire "modem" function is run
from hardware and associated firmware from inside the external modem - the
PC (regardless of operating system) has nothing to do with how the modem
functions. The PC merely sends (and recieves) via the serial port and the
modem takes care of it from there.
You may need a driver to get additional functionality from the modem but it
will probably operate acceptably as soon as you plug it in.
I have a USR (aka 3Com) Sportster 56K which performs brilliantly with both
Windows and Linux. The Linux (E-Smith) recognises the modem as a USR and
nothing further is needed.
 
The other advantage of an external is that, if it does get screwed up in
some way, you can turn it off / on again without rebooting the PC.
 
Plus the flashing lights look cool ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: kadim martana [mailto:kadimmartana at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, 1 September 2003 5:51 p.m.
To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
Subject: Re: [wellylug] A real newbie needs help - internet connection



Thank you for all the helps and offers....

First, I am still curious with what I've done with my 'poor modem' -
downloading its driver and trying to install it into my mandrake (which I am
not succeed yet).

Second, does buying an external modem really outweigh those internal modems?
I'm affraid that I still need to download (surely?), keep the driver into a
cd, install it via terminal (that I don't quite understand -..that's what
happened when I tried the hsflinmodem). 

I'm looking forward to having other explanations

Regards,

Kadim



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