Hello Lennart, Thanks for your response. My comments are inline below. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> To: "o1bigtenor" <o1bigtenor@gmail.com>; "GTALUG Talk" <talk@gtalug.org> Cc: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng." <apetrie@aspetrie.net> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:15:36AM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk
Dialup Modem US Robotics USR5638 56K* V.92, internal dial-up faxmodem card, (PCIe) PCI Express x1;
Not sure how well this will work in a *nix system - - - would need to verify that drivers are available!!!
They are not, and most likely never will be.
It's true that dial-up modem support in Linux is very weak. Please see my detailed response to Giles Orr.
-- Len Sorensen