Looking for dialup hardware solution

[Lance F. Squire]

Walter Dnes wrote:
>   One embarressing "oops"; I didn't order a built-in PCI modem card for
> a Dell.  Apparently, them thar new-fangled machines don't got no serial
> port.  So much for my faithfull USR X2 external modem.  I suppose I'm
> looking at getting a PCI card retail.  Or are there any other dialup
> solutions.  I use dialup as emergency backup.  It's really nice to have
> when I need it.
> 
>   Are there any other dialup options in the brave new world of
> computing?  I have 1 free PCI slot in the machine.
> 

You could always get a USB to Serial adapter. Last I checked these and 
their printer counter parts are reasonably well supported in Linux.

Lance
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists