[Cialug] What's your modem?

[n.d]

from my limited knowledge of modems, routers, switches, and hubs. i 
thought that anything that uses the IEEE specs on networking should work 
for linux. as long as everything follows the standard it should be golden.

Rocket Robin Hood wrote:

>Well, something is terribly wrong and I cancelled my DSL and sent back the 
>modem. The mail just wouldn't work no matter what. It had nothing to do with 
>my mail server. I have 3 friends with their own servers and created a dummy 
>benalto.com email account; they could all use pop and smtp. in turn, they 
>gave me email accounts and specifically allowed my IP to access those but I 
>couldn't download any mail from them. I couldn't log into AMSN, Yahoo, or 
>Gaim either. No Opera/Firefox. No telnet out or ssh. Just NETSCAPE.
>
>I'm going to try a different isp, and a different modem. I am getting a lot of 
>conflicting advice online. If any of you have DSL, what do you use for a 
>Linux-friendly modem? (ideally, one that is recognized at install...)
>
>Thanks,
>jason
>
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