type normally or don't type at all.

don't buy a modem, buy a router, much mcuh less hassle, and eitherway you didn't even bother saying what kind of modem you are talking about... adsl? cable? dial?

I'm sorry
I was in aterrible time.
It's a dialup modem.

If you want a modem to function in linux buy an external one. Most propably you''ll make your job.
See also linmodems.org for some infos

buy an ethernet rooter with an inbuilt ADSL moden

USB modens dont work well with linux and if you get one working it will never work as well as it did in windows

you will need to make shoure that linuxs sees your ethernet card with is usually fine. The advantage with this is that you can wire up lots of computers and shear the net connection with as many computers as you like with no extra cost to you internet bill and tend to be more stabler than USB modems and the like. make shoure that your rooter has an in built ADSL modem


if you need dail up the a serial modem will do that job rember
that they are all hardware modems with an easy interface that is easy for linux and windows to command

the reasion for these silly USB modems and many if not all PCI cards is that they use computer programs to take a way electronic hardware that cost the consuma letting the computer doing some of the work and tend to be smaller to and cheeper [ some times they may say hardware moden PCI or USB, just egnore them ] often called
winmodems


have a look a round the net and on linuxqueations.org if you dont belive me and the rest of the net


here are such models UK web site.


http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...ice&show=stock


go hear for serial modems

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...&subcat_uid=37

Im was using a external serial modem, made by sweex and it uses an intel ambient chipset. Theres also a wide arange of modems that will work under the hardware compatability list on this site. Generally 95% of external serial modems will work on linux, best bet is to go with one that uses the chipset i just mentioned, a 3com one, a us robotics one. They will all more then likely work.