[Nelug] RE: Nick - What Distro

[Edward Younger - Sun VSP - Firmware Engineer]

Andy Hoult writes:
 > Mandrake is probably the easiest to use, although I find that RedHat 9 and
 > Suse 8.2 Pro all seem to have simple install methods too.
 > 
 > Get rid of that winmodem though, you'll have a hard time getting it to work,
 > there's some cheap serial port modems at www.ebuyer.com .
 > 

Conexant HCF and HSF modems work just fine - depending on the distro,
you may even get the drivers included, otherwise you can get them from
(eg) http://www.linuxant.com/drivers.

HSF modem in my laptop "just works".

Eddy