David,
Mind you, the answer depends on the laptop, and on the version of Linux
which you use.
Changing the INTERNAL modem in a laptop also requires some professional
skills.
Let us imagine that you have a Conexant modem IN your laptop, but you
do not want to pay 20$ to have it fully featured (56kbauds, fax support).
And you do not want to depend on the kernel.
And you want minimal headache (no driver).
And you want the modem to take as little place as possible in your bag.
And you have a free PCMCIA slot in your laptop.
Once you know all such answers, visit http://xmodem.org/modems/index.html
and take one of the PCMCIA modems made visible by clicking MODEMS, which
is flagged in GREEN.
Those GREEN ones do not need ANY driver.
But be prepared to spend quite a bit of time to find one such new or
used card ... and quite a bit of money.
Sorry David, but there is no other way to address questions as yours.
By the way, http://xmodem.org/modems/index.html is a new version of Rob
Clark's table, and it is UNDER CONSTRUCTION, INCOMPLETE (some modems may
be missing, almost all of them are not yet identified as DO NOT WORK in
RED, WORK with a special driver in BLUE+PENGUIN(and check that a version
of the driver exists for the kernel which you use), GREEN Ok (full
hardware and very hard to find), BLUE+$ Ok with driver for which you
must pay, not clear in ORANGE.
There is MUCH more and MUCH better information from searching by
chipsets at the same place, but do not ask us which modems contain a
given chipset. Many, not all, manufacturers will not tell you which
chipset they use because they change depending on their collection of
orders and chipset availability schedules from the chipset manufacturer
which is almost never the same as for the complete modem.
David Weitz wrote:
Okay. But back to the question. What is the best modem, either
internal or
external (I use a laptop) to use with Linux?
Thanks,
Dave
On 5/15/07, Jacques Goldberg <Jacques.Goldberg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Janez,
As Webmaster of http://linmodems.technion.ac.il which is NOT
"linmodems.org", I wish to make it clear that I will veto any attempt to
recommend or reject modems in Web pages. Indeed, because the site is
part if an academic Institution, it HAS to be free from any commercial
implication. Information, yes. "Advertising", no.
Sure enough it contains a sort of replica of the discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
discussion list where people are free to give their opinions - but then
it comes from the author of the message, not from the site.
Jacques
Re. Linuxant: why don't the authors of vitriolic calls to boycott xyz,
and more generally of flaming this or that, waste their time writing
their prose rather than writing software to make their modems work?
janez.zemva@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Unlike linuxprinting.org linmodems.org does not suggest any
linux-friendly
> modems to buy. From reading the driver list I've formed an opinion that
> Conexant modem are the best to buy, because of Linuxant's (unfree)
drivers,
> but there are vitriolic calls to boycott Conexant on the inet.
> Side question:
> Does the Intel537EP driver support sending/receiving/connecting to
faxes?
> How about drivers for other chipsets?
