Sage Said An external serial modem can operate as a three-wire device and can sign on as a 'standard' modem in any OS - don't come more economical and universal than that. No good wishing for things to be different than they are. Are you saying that any/all external serial modems are compatible wit...

Sorry people that last post was from me - bobwal - had stopped for lunch and not logged back on.

aahhaaa said afterthought- if one of you guys that really knows what you are doing would put half-height & full-height PCI winmodem cards on eBay- with a working driver setup disk for Puppy- I'd buy one of each! I'de be in that. I could get my User Group members to buy these much easier than to ...

puppian wrote bobwal are you using intel 536 modem? I've got it working in Puppy 1.0.3 with the driver downloaded from Intel's site, but can't get it work in 1.0.5 I have previously BP (Before Puppy) downloaded the information sheet and tarball for the intel 536 modem and tried with the other distr...

OK a little progress - Have got slmodem k2.4.29 downloaded and installed with country set and the dialup icon on the desktop. The setup accepted ttySL0 as a successful test. I should probably say that this modem is working fine with Win98 SE. I have tried dialing withGK Dial Xeznet and Wvdial - the ...

You're right of course - it didn't work.

Thanks for the post - I'll get the right one and try again.

I agree with aahhaaa completely about the frustrations of trying to set up some internal modems for linux distros. I am a pensioner who is very cost concious and live in the fastest growing provincial city in Australia - but some of us still "aint got broadband". I am promoting linux, espe...