sambo Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 Does anyone know whether an external modem means guaranteed Linux compatability? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 No some external modms are winmodems, its a lot rarer tho... also lots of winmodems are supported but not in the official distro's... support varies but if it can be made to work in one it can probably be made to work in another... its always safer to check actual make/model Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 Nothing is guaranteed in life.. except death and taxes :) Anyway, about 90% of the external serial modem should be usable in linux. So is most PCMCIAs. Internal ISA modems are very compatible. Unfortunately, most modem you get inside a computer are pci winmodems.. so you need to work on it a little bit harder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 go to www.linmodems.org and check if your modem is listed there. Best of luck, SwiftDeath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 I would say that with SERIAL modems, it's more like 99.999% Every now and then you find one that isn't ahrdware controlled, but it's almost unheard of. USB external modems on the other hand are a different story, about 50% work, the rest are realy just USB to RJ-11 adapters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sambo Posted July 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 Thanks for advice everyone. I found a few websites that seem to reinforce Veedub's comment on serial modem compatability ie. "All external modems connected via a RS-232 serial port should work." Is an RS-232 serial port common for a serial modem? Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 The rule of thumb with external modems: If it's serial port then it is highly likely that it will work, if it's usb it probably won't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted July 21, 2004 Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 RS-232 = serial port serial port = RS-232 Well, in all fairness that actualy refers to the plug itself while serial refers to the communication protocal it uses, but you can't realy have one with out the other. The only thing to worry about is that some of them have the old style wide serial plugs and but most computers these days havea standard 9-pin serial plug. But if you get one with the big plug and only have a 9-pin jack, don't worry. they make adapters for just a couple bucks. Heck, I've got an extra and if we lived in the same country I'd just mail it to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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