Re: Are there real USB or PCMCIA modems available

From: Scott Alfter (salfter_at_salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:00:40 GMT

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In article <pan.2004.08.25.12.09.04.714951@yahoo.com>,
General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote:
>My new laptop has a winmodem and it's looking pretty hopeless about
>getting it to work. It also lacks a serial port so I can't use an old
>fashion external modem. Are there any real modems available on eitehr
>PCMCIA cards or as USB modems[?]

You might want to take a look at the Zoom 3075:

http://www.zoomtel.com/products/dial_up_pc_card.html

So far, I've tested it with minicom and was able to dial out. Now if I can
just get PPP working again (don't know why it has to be so much more
difficult to get a dial-up connection working under Linux than other types
of network connections)...

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