Hi John.<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>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.<br>
<br>Happy to help out further.<br><br>Cheers.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 16, 2008 4:45 PM, MDM Productions <<a href="mailto:thefrasers@clear.net.nz">thefrasers@clear.net.nz</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks Dean. BTW, it's a tower(ing) desktop and yep, got a serial port.<br>Anything special I should be looking for in an external, and what's the best<br>way to install; retrofit with guidance or reinstall The Gibbon and let it<br>
get detected on the way in since the install is so drama-free?<br><br>John.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: <<a href="mailto:dean@brokendream.net">dean@brokendream.net</a>><br>
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<br><br>> Hi John,<br>><br>> My recommendation would be an external serial modem if the laptop has a<br>> serial port. They will nearly all work on any Linux distro and usually<br>> are very easy to setup. USB external modems are not in the same category.<br>
><br>> Dean<br>><br>><br>><br>> MDM Productions wrote:<br>>> Having had a bit more time to think, and wade through quite a bit of<br>>> Googling on Intel 536 chipsets as fitted to DSE XH1154 modems that was<br>
>> way above my level of competence, I have arrived at the following:<br>>><br>>> Since it appears unlikely that a DSE modem is supported in 2.6.<br>>> kernels, can anyone recommend a modem that will work under Xubuntu<br>
>> Gutsy? Or...<br>>><br>>> Is there a concensus about a Windows(ugh!)-similar or at least not too<br>>> hostile distro that modems install readily upon? The DSE goes to<br>>> 2.4.18 kernels. And the command line is not yet my friend.<br>
>><br>>> My toe-dip with Puppy 3.01 that started the idea of a real live Linux<br>>> box seemed to do most of what I needed, bearing in mind that it was a<br>>> parasite on my XP machine via the USB, but it just worked. Just worked<br>
>> is needed for a first Linux desktop as well.<br>>><br>>> Thanks people,<br>>> John.<br>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>>><br>>><br>
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