Greetings,

I just installed Ubuntu 4.10 and am so far blown away! I was running Mandrake 10 CE (as it was the only distro I could get to work with my moniter) but I think I have made a solid switch now.

Anyway, I need some advice on supported PCMCIA cards and getting one to work on a dial-up account. I normally use dsl which needs no configuring, but I am going to Mexico for a month and would like to use my friends dial-up account to get my email etc.

I have a Dell Inspiron 1000 with a winmodem, so that way is pretty much out of the question, especially since I lack the know-how to configure one of those. So it was suggested to me to get a PCMCIA card with a slot for a phone cord. Thing is, I tried that back with Mandrake on my Toshiba 1905-S301 and for the life of me could not get the thing to work, not that I knew how to anyway.

So, I would be grateful if someone could mabye suggest some supported cards and/or direct me to some good tutorials about this subject. To be honest, I don't even know what PCMCIA stands for, just that one of these cards is supposed to act like a modem.

BTW, I did Google this but could not find anything relating to what kind of PCMCIA modem card I would want. i.e. 90v, fax, isdn, cardbus???
"Tux Mobil" has a large list of these things, but I'm not sure what I need."

Thanks for your time,
pfak

This question really belongs to hardware forum.

90V is analog modem, this is what you want. There are some hardware compatibility lists available on net, one is here:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/pcmcia.html

I agree. It's a technical Linux question. Moved to Linux-Hardware.