Re: [gentoo-user] Dial-up while travelling?

[Dale]

Matt Harrison wrote:
> Grant wrote:
>> I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet
>> via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also
>> wondering about dial-up.  Does it work well on Gentoo?  Should a
>> laptop's internal modem work, or would I be better off buying an
>> external one?  Has anyone found dial-up to be a useful method of
>> connection while travelling?
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>
> This is going back a few years, I haven't had any experience recently.
> A lot of modems used to be referred to as Softmodems, those that
> depended hugely on the operating system (very often Windows). Those
> modems were a bitch to get working under linux. We used to have to
> make sure we were buying hardware modems. A lot of internal modems
> were Softmodems and were pretty useless for linux.
>
> As I say, this may be totally out of date now, but it's possible you
> won't get an internal modem working under linux. If this is the case,
> you will have to buy a proper hardware one.
>
> Hope this gives a little bit of info.
>
>
> ~Matt
>
>

This is very true.  Buy a external serial modem, not a USB only one
either.  External serial is the only ones I can find that are hardware
based.  My modem has a USB port but I use the serial port.  If it is
only USB, it could very well be a software modem.  Be cautious on that.

Mine is a Actiontec brand.  I did have one to fail but it got hit by
lightening big time.  It even blew up the telephone box outside.  It
didn't let it get through to my computer tho. Otherwise, I have not had
any problems.

If you are unsure, send a link to what you find and maybe we can help
make sure it will work.

Dale

:-)  :-)