[Nottingham] Ububtu & dial-up networking

James Dobson dob_3001 at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jul 20 13:17:25 BST 2006


The only other location I can think of  is 

http://www.linuxant.com/

I don't think you can emulate windows drivers for
winmodems like you can for wireless cards.

Other than that try and buy a hardware modem? or if
she has sky get broadband for free! ;)

JD

--- Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 03:27:12PM +0000, Martin
> Kirk wrote:
> > part-way down the ModemData.txt generated by
> scanModem it says "There is no 
> > support under 2.6.n kernels for the 14e4:4212  BCM
> V.90 56k modem"
> > 
> > is that as final as it sounds or is there a
> possibility i could get it 
> > working ?  
> > 
> 
> Quite likely, yes.
> 
> > if not, can anyone recommend a cheap hardware
> modem that's known to play well 
> > with Ubuntu ?
> > 
> 
> I put an el-cheapo Intel modem in a PC for my
> brother before he got
> broadband. Unfortunately I don't have it to hand but
> 537EP may be the one.
> It was the cheapest of the cheap that I bought from
> ebuyer. They may still
> sell them.
> 
> Cheers,
> Al.
> 
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