[ale] Share my frustration: what do you do for fax/data modems?

[Christopher Fowler]

One more thing.  Beware of Intel.  They have these modems they call
hardware.  They include more hardware than an AMR riser modem but they
still require a driver to do the heavy lifting.  I found a sweet deal on
eBay for one for under $5.  Yes it said Linux support.  I forgot my #1
rule.  Received it and opened it and said "Where's the Beef!".  Not many
parts on that PCB.  A little googling and my fear was realized.  Never
even tried to use it.  To Linux an internal modem has to appear as a
16550A.  

  

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 15:50 -0400, Vernard Martin wrote:
> Just like Byron, I am doing modem stuff at the moment.
> 
> The situation: I have a Dell Itanium machine running RedHat Enterprise 
> Linux. It has no USB ports. I have a USB-to-Serial adapater plugged in 
> and its working fine. I'm using an external  USRobotics modem to do SMS 
> messages with the Nagios monitoring system.
> 
> Since the machine is a rackmount, I'd like to eliminate the external 
> modem and its power supply brick and replace it with an internal modem.  
> But the problem of course if finding an internal PCI modem that is 
> supported under linux as well. I don't mind spending money on this as 
> its a enterprise critical system.
> 
> My current attempts at finding a solution was to purchase a $10 modem at 
> Frys that claimed it had linux support. Unfortunately its mostly linux 
> 2.4 kernel support. The 2.6 support doesn't complain cleanly and I'm 
> trying to muddle through that.
> 
> Where can I buy a modem that will definitely work with linux?
> 
> Vernard
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