[GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

[Steve Petrie, P.Eng.]

Hello Lennart,

Thanks for your response.

My comments are inline below.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
To: "o1bigtenor" <o1bigtenor at gmail.com>; "GTALUG Talk" <talk at gtalug.org>
Cc: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng." <apetrie at 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