[plug] wanted: 56k modem

Gavin Chester sales at ecosolutions.com.au
Tue Jun 13 01:47:01 WST 2006


Forgive me if this should be an off-topic posting, I wasn't sure. 

Anyone got a good 56k external modem just gathering dust after your
upgrade to DSL?  Want to part with it for a small gratuity?  Please
contact me off list at sales(at)ecosolutions.com.au.  I can't find any
retailers selling cheap 56k _external_ modems these days, it's all
either DSL or internal (PCI) 56k modems. 

Reason: As part of converting my son across to Linux I want him to get
online easily on his dialup account.  The spare external modem I had
aside for him turned out not to work with Linux, would you believe?  The
modem works for him in XP and I successfully tested my Netcomm modem on
his PC when it was running Linux.  So, it is definitely a fault with
that other modem I had.  Seems that Linux treats it like a PCI modem in
that it knows it is there but can't initialise it properly.  Go
figure :-(

Gavin.  




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