[wellylug] (no subject)

[Jeff Hunt]

Hi John.
The situation with win/lin modems is improving but the simplest solution
seems to be an external modem. I have had best success with a US Robotics
sportster bought through Trademe. I a have spare to lend if that is helpful.

Dialup on Gutsy doesn't work or at best is very temperamental. Best is to
use Gnome PPP which you can download as a binary. It's good.
The main thing to watch with an external modem is to set it up as TTYS0 and
not as a modem. This is a historic thing with Linux thinking things on the
serial port are teletype machines.

Happy to help out further.

Cheers.

On Feb 16, 2008 4:45 PM, MDM Productions <thefrasers at clear.net.nz> wrote:

> Thanks Dean. BTW, it's a tower(ing) desktop and yep, got a serial port.
> Anything special I should be looking for in an external, and what's the
> best
> way to install; retrofit with guidance or reinstall The Gibbon and let it
> get detected on the way in since the install is so drama-free?
>
> John.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <dean at brokendream.net>
> To: "Wellington Linux Users Group" <wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz>
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 4:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] (no subject)
>
>
> > Hi John,
> >
> > My recommendation would be an external serial modem if the laptop has a
> > serial port. They will nearly all work on any Linux distro and usually
> > are very easy to setup. USB external modems are not in the same
> category.
> >
> > Dean
> >
> >
> >
> > MDM Productions wrote:
> >> Having had a bit more time to think, and wade through quite a bit of
> >> Googling on Intel 536 chipsets as fitted to DSE XH1154 modems that was
> >> way above my level of competence, I have arrived at the following:
> >>
> >> Since it appears unlikely that a DSE modem is supported in 2.6.
> >> kernels, can anyone recommend a modem that will work under Xubuntu
> >> Gutsy? Or...
> >>
> >> Is there a concensus about a Windows(ugh!)-similar or at least not too
> >> hostile distro that modems install readily upon? The DSE goes to
> >> 2.4.18 kernels. And the command line is not yet my friend.
> >>
> >> My toe-dip with Puppy 3.01 that started the idea of a real live Linux
> >> box seemed to do most of what I needed, bearing in mind that it was a
> >> parasite on my XP machine via the USB, but it just worked. Just worked
> >> is needed for a first Linux desktop as well.
> >>
> >> Thanks people,
> >> John.
> >>
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