dial up modem for Linux Ubuntu

[conundrum]

I have finally reached the end of my leash with Messrs. Gates and company. I have just received a new tower loaded with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn and am looking for a simple, internal dial up modem.
No emergency, but if any of you know of such a critter I would appreciate it. I have tried a few places but have gotten no response to queries. And the local Radio Shack is sort of a black hole..."You wanna whut? Fer whut?....

[bee_pipes]

Yeah, we had to replace the old computer last summer - windows 98 box that had been worked hard and retired with honors. Tried to come up on linux, but it did not recognize the modem. We are on dial up here, and I know modems have had to gotten cheaper - would be interested in hearing about linux compatible modems too. The linux can be made to have a look and feel of windows, so the learning curve is pretty short - makes my wife happy. Would like to put Bill Gates out to pasture too.

Regards,
Pat

[AlchemyAcres]

Try the Ubuntu forums and/or linmodems.org to find a modem that's compatible.....basically you want to avoid most winmodems, which are software rather than hardware based .


~Martin :)

[conundrum]

linmodems.org..thanks Martin. Tried Ubuntu forum but a vaguely circuitous answer came up.
Funny, I too am showing the door to an old win98 box. It worked, mostly, but I am tired of jousting with it all the time.

[ryanmercer]

linmodems.org..thanks Martin. Tried Ubuntu forum but a vaguely circuitous answer came up.
Funny, I too am showing the door to an old win98 box. It worked, mostly, but I am tired of jousting with it all the time.

Haha I've got about a dozen 486's running still with 3.11 workgroups on them. (don't ask we used to have a friend at a local goodwill, and they were instructed to 'throw computers in the dumpster that looked really old' so corporate wouldn't have to mess with them.... and she'd call me... I'd take anything and everything that was going to be tossed, would salvage any functioning units that I could and turn them into basic internet/email machines then take them back and drop them off for them to sell, if anything wouldn't work I'd take any functioning component out, take the cases sell them as sheet metal, and drop the pcb's off at one of those places that properly disposes of integrated circuits/printed circuits. [functioning ram for computers that old can go for darn good prices on ebay] ) alright, I know that was pretty off-topic but haha, I got carried away.