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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dial-up while travelling?
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:23:54
Message-Id: 4A5127F3.80407@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Dial-up while travelling? by Mick
1 Mick wrote:
2 > On Sunday 05 July 2009, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> Matt Harrison wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> Grant wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>> I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet
9 >>>> via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also
10 >>>> wondering about dial-up. Does it work well on Gentoo? Should a
11 >>>> laptop's internal modem work, or would I be better off buying an
12 >>>> external one? Has anyone found dial-up to be a useful method of
13 >>>> connection while travelling?
14 >>>>
15 >>>> - Grant
16 >>>>
17 >>> This is going back a few years, I haven't had any experience recently.
18 >>> A lot of modems used to be referred to as Softmodems, those that
19 >>> depended hugely on the operating system (very often Windows). Those
20 >>> modems were a bitch to get working under linux. We used to have to
21 >>> make sure we were buying hardware modems. A lot of internal modems
22 >>> were Softmodems and were pretty useless for linux.
23 >>>
24 >>> As I say, this may be totally out of date now, but it's possible you
25 >>> won't get an internal modem working under linux. If this is the case,
26 >>> you will have to buy a proper hardware one.
27 >>>
28 >>> Hope this gives a little bit of info.
29 >>>
30 >>>
31 >>> ~Matt
32 >>>
33 >> This is very true. Buy a external serial modem, not a USB only one
34 >> either. External serial is the only ones I can find that are hardware
35 >> based. My modem has a USB port but I use the serial port. If it is
36 >> only USB, it could very well be a software modem. Be cautious on that.
37 >>
38 >> Mine is a Actiontec brand. I did have one to fail but it got hit by
39 >> lightening big time. It even blew up the telephone box outside. It
40 >> didn't let it get through to my computer tho. Otherwise, I have not had
41 >> any problems.
42 >>
43 >> If you are unsure, send a link to what you find and maybe we can help
44 >> make sure it will work.
45 >>
46 >
47 > Many softmodems today have Linux drivers and work straight out of the box. My
48 > laptop has a lucent modem and I have had no problems at all with it. Often
49 > use it when out and about, or when I want to run a test from a different IP
50 > address than my ADSL connection. The only thing is I have to remember to
51 > re-emerge it when I compile a new kernel (module-rebuild).
52 >
53
54 You are the first person I have heard that it works for. If the OP can
55 get what is built in to work, then that may be a good option. If not,
56 he may as well buy a modem that he knows will work. External serial
57 works every time. No special drivers to keep up with either.
58
59 Dale
60
61 :-) :-)