[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 via talk" <talk at gtalug.org>
To: "Loui Chang" <louipc.ist at gmail.com>
Cc: "GTALUG Talk" <talk at gtalug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP 
PC;


> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:05:18PM -0400, Loui Chang wrote:
>> Perhaps for a modest price?
>> http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/
>
> I don't think that supports the USR5638.
>
> I remember the modems those drivers support.
>
> Multitech has a PCIe modem that should work with linux, but it is
> over $200.
>

Too expensive for me.

> Of course an external real serial modem is often more likely to work
> with linux.  An external USB modem might work.
>

Right -- the good old RS-232 serial port.

A fallback solution if I can't find a PCIe modem that works.

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