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GenuineAdvantage:
Would a U.S. Robotics PCI modem work just like an serial modem in linux? Detected and everything? Or would drivers still be needed? I'm getting contradictory info since no one uses these things any more. I'm wondering about this one in particular. Will it just work or what? Any thoughts?

piratePenguin:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=2043&cat=174
looks good.

GenuineAdvantage:
It was a year ago I know but $80-100 ?? Why is the one in-store below $30? Dropped that much, or it's a cheapened softmodem. I guess I'll just get it but I hope it's not the latter...

piratePenguin:
$80 sounds like alot for any 56k modem, I got an external one for something like e30 (and I also got the seller to download and burn mandrake 10 for me, my first gnu/linux distro :)) 2 years ago, but that was second hand.

Maybe they're dropping in price because few people want them anymore? 5 years ago 56kbps was all the rage (at least here it was)

davidnix71:
NewEgg lists this USR serial modem as true hardware, read the review at the bottom.
They are still a bit pricy and now made in China, like most everything else.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustratingReview.asp?item=N82E16825104135

Here is listed an external true hardware modem for much less. Will run on a 386 the site says.

http://www.orpheuscomputing.com/modems_networking.html

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