[lug] Modem recommendations

[George Sexton]

I had a really hard time getting USB disks to work with Linux. 

I suspect getting mgetty to work will be pretty straight-forward.

George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
http://www.mhsoftware.com/
Voice: 303 438 9585
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us 
> [mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us] On Behalf Of Michael Belanger
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:25 PM
> To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [lug] Modem recommendations
> 
> 
> Well.. I am an idealist -- prone to disappointment.. From what I have 
> googled, USB modems and linux are not quite there yet.. Apparently I 
> would need to use some very experimental kernel drivers to make this 
> work -- and even then, it didn't sound promising..
> 
> USR V.92/V.90 External Serial modem has been ordered..
> Next big hurdle will be learning how to configure Mgetty to 
> accept calls 
> and allow shell access. Brave new world for me.
> 
> :)
> 
> Thanks everyone!
> 
> -M
> 
> George Sexton wrote:
> > You are being sarcastic right?
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us 
> >>[mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us] On Behalf Of Michael Belanger
> >>Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 11:34 AM
> >>To: nate at natetech.com; Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group 
> >>-- General Mailing List
> >>Subject: Re: [lug] Modem recommendations
> >>
> >>Nate Duehr wrote:
> >>
> >>>More on the modem thing...
> >>
> >>Ooh.. I see some USB external modems.. These should work just 
> >>as easily 
> >>as ones using normal Serial ports, yes?
> >>
> >>I shall google...
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>Michael Belanger
> >>CICLOPS, Space Science Institute
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> Michael Belanger
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