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

[Matt Harrison]

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As I say, this may be totally out of date now, but it's possible you 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