Re: dial up modem

On 19 Dec 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.hardware, in article
<476956e9$0$26005$88260bb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, McDoo wrote:

Does any one know of a good dial-up modem that will work with suse 10.2
(kernel 2.6.18.8)?

1. Any real modem
2. A linmodem (a loosemodem that has appropriate Linux drivers)

Unfortunately, serial modems are a dying breed, and there isn't as much
interest as there used to be. You can start with

-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 1078686 May 23 2007 Hardware-HOWTO
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 338097 Jan 17 2007 Modem-HOWTO
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 114410 Nov 5 15:07 Unix-Hardware-Buyer-HOWTO

You may or may not have those documents in /usr/share/HOWTO/ on your
system, but any search engine will find them - those are the current
file dates. There are older documents, such as

-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 48060 Mar 13 2002 Conexant+Rockwell-modem-HOWTO
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 46213 Feb 25 2001 Linmodem-HOWTO
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 12950 Apr 29 2001 Winmodems-and-Linux-HOWTO

but they are relatively outdated. Another older document that is
oftem mentioned in these documents is Rob Clark's "Winmodem Web Page".
That page had lists of modems that worked (OK), required drivers (LM),
did _not_ work (WM), or were undefined (?). The page hasn't been
updated in years, but:

[compton ~]$ grep -E '^ (OK|WM|LM|\?) ' *list.txt.12.02.04 | awk '{
print $1" " $2 }' | sort | uniq -c | column
149 extlist.txt.12.02.04: ? 215 pci_list.txt.12.02.04: WM
113 extlist.txt.12.02.04: OK 81 pcmcia_list.txt.12.02.04: ?
186 isa_list.txt.12.02.04: ? 1 pcmcia_list.txt.12.02.04: LM
10 isa_list.txt.12.02.04: LM 44 pcmcia_list.txt.12.02.04: OK
157 isa_list.txt.12.02.04: OK 17 pcmcia_list.txt.12.02.04: WM
62 isa_list.txt.12.02.04: WM 69 usblist.txt.12.02.04: ?
252 pci_list.txt.12.02.04: ? 4 usblist.txt.12.02.04: LM
70 pci_list.txt.12.02.04: LM 8 usblist.txt.12.02.04: OK
17 pci_list.txt.12.02.04: OK 10 usblist.txt.12.02.04: WM
[compton ~]$

Your best bet is to see what is offered in your area (stores, or the web),
and get the _exact_ model numbers. Then hit your favorite search engine,
and look for that model number, and the words 'modem Linux' and see what
turns up. Most RS-232 externals (the old serial port) work just fine (USB
wasn't well supported then), while PCI internals tend to be loosers.

Old guy
.

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