What modems work with Ubuntu?

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Mon Feb 6 18:03:08 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 09:52 -0500, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> Nancy:
> I stand corrected. My only experience with a PCI modem was several
> years 
> ago. The clerk at the local store told me that he got the same modem 
> running on his linux box (ISTR he had some version of RedHat) without 
> any difficulty. Maybe so, but I couldn't get it to like my
> installation 
> (Mandrake 9.something), so I bought a Zoom external modem and passed
> the 
> PCI card on to my son (Win98SE -- don't ask).
> 

There are also several "Winmodems" that work with Linux, check out
slmodemd and the Linuxant project.

The Linuxant drivers are not free but I hear they work well.

Lee





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