Are you using Linux at the moment?

[hipoonios]

Yes, using Debian Linux here

[Puni/Void]

Hi Hipoonios and welcome to the new forum! Hope you like it. Anyway, I'm not currently using Linux on any of my systems. I actually have only one system here in England as the rest is packed and stored away in Norway. The nearest I get is having AROS available for usage, which is a nice piece of OS.

[esalv]

Right now I'm updating Kubuntu Feisty on my rotten PC.

Erik

[Stephen Coates]

I was thinking of getting a flash drive to put linux on to use with this PC (not my own), but then remembered that it had a winmodem. I know it is possible to get some winmodems to work in linux but as far as i know it's not as easy as a proper modem.

[Harrison]

Would you need to have modem support steve? I haven't seen a modem installed in a PC for a long time now and due to prices of a dialup account being as much as a broadband account it is pointless to remain on dialup (regardless of the arguments for and against dialup vs broadband that you may come up with).

[Stephen Coates]

Modem support is obviously not neccesery, but it is if I want to use the internet!

[Harrison]

? Couldn't you just use a network card and link the Linux machine to a router? Or if you only have access to a dialup account for some reason, you could share the connection from your PC via Windows and a crossover cable between the two machines. There are solutions even of you cannot get a modem to directly work in Linux itself.

It is also possible to get most wireless lan cards working with Linux using Windows drivers. I did this with a wireless Linksys card. The setup is quite complex but once sorted it works perfectly. Quite mad to think that Cisco and Linksys don't directly support or recognise Linux as an OS so have never directly released a driver for any of their products. Quite mad.