I figured you were doing something like that.
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Technomage <
technomage.hawke@gmail.com> wrote:
> actually,
> this is what I am looking for.
> the 'winmodems" are software modems and don't exactly work very well in
> linux or OS X (and
> in OS X they don't work at all). I need either a USB or serial port
> based external unit. if I could
> find a pci based HARDWARE modem, I would, but I don't see those being
> made for anything
> very cheap.
>
> btw, dialup modems are not exactly dead tech. they are often included on
> most laptops (mac and pc)
> which makes me wonder if the tech is all that dead. my mac laptop came
> with a built-in modem and
> I am trying to find an external for my OS X desktop (using linux source
> code to compile the utilities I need).
>
> The reason for this is that I have a phone line I dedicate for my own
> use and wireless+voip is not really
> an option in a lot of places (where a phoneline is still available). I'd
> like to be able to access my lan (and route
> to the net like an ISP) without having to maintain a separate dialup
> account (which would cost money
> I don't have). so yeah, for those like me, this tech is definitely not
> dead yet.
>
> Dazed_75 wrote:
>> Sure you don't want one with the acoustic cups for the telephone headset?
>> LOL
>>
>> Actually, I thought I would ask why you want an external one to connect to a
>> serial port rather than a simple PCI internal modem which is still commonly
>> available. Th only thing I could think of was that your server is not a PC
>> or so you could disconnect it when not traveling but you could do the same
>> with the PCI just by disconnecting the phone line.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Technomage <technomage.hawke@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>
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