Hello Russell, Thanks for your response. My comments are inline below. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell Reiter" <rreiter91@gmail.com> To: "GTALUG Talk" <talk@gtalug.org>; "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh@mimosa.com> Cc: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng." <apetrie@aspetrie.net> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 8:32 AM Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;
On Jul 26, 2016 9:27 PM, "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
| From: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk" <talk@gtalug.org>
| I don't really have a few weeks to spare. I need to get the Linux PC up | and running, so I can get back to the rest of my life.
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Just to amplify what Len said:
- external serial modems are very standard and well-supported
I believe as a general rule of thumb any Hayes compatable modem will work with Linux. I've not tested this tho.
I'll keep this in mind. <snip>
I tinkered with GSM tethering. I did an install with the phone tethered and linux found the phones modem and created the proper serial nodes at the time. On reboot, I had to fool around with usb modeswitching from storage to modem using a udev rule.
My head is spinning. Given that I'm still using dial-up on my current Windows XP system, no one will be surprised to learn that I carry no mobile and hope to make it all the way to my conference with the "Grim Reaper" and never, ever walk around with some oligarchic comms carrier knowing where I am.
- avoid "WinModems". Those require proprietary drivers. Some have
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If you don't have a broadband internet connection, all sorts of things that I don't notice might become problems. Like updates.
I updated the unit I referred to above using the phones modem for about a year. Even when I went over my Data plan (6gb high speed the rest throttled to 30kbs) I had no problems. I could even watch YouTube as long as I used low res and preloaded for a couple of minutes.
Interesting. And encouraging. Maybe I can hold out a while longer, and keep using dial-up with the new Linux PC, postponing the extra expense of DSL versus dial-up. I pay today $15 / mo. (+taxes) for dial-up access. My ISP (Start.ca) wants $40 / mo. (plus taxes) for 5 Mbs DSL service.
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Russell Sent from mobile.