[plug] wanted: 56k modem

[Kai Jones]

Can't find anyone selling external serial or USB modems ?
http://www.trinix.com.au/catalogue/details.jsp?productID=10787&type=
or
http://www.trinix.com.au/catalogue/details.jsp?productID=10786&type= 

Not saying you have to buy from Trinix but that's one retailer, there
are prolly more.

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf Of Gavin Chester
Sent: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 1:47 AM
To: plug
Subject: [plug] wanted: 56k modem

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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