suggest any modems?

[Jim Higson]

On Tuesday 13 July 2004 06:10, mort wrote:
> Can anybody suggest a suitable external modem to use with fedora. I have
> fedora core 1 publishers edition currently installed on my
> laptop....however i will be very soon upgrading to fc2 full ver. the modem
> built in is a software driven modem (not a true modem) and therefore
> finding a driver will be near impossible unless i use a very generic one. I
> think the chipset is by lucent technology (AC-link). Also has anybody had
> any trouble installing packages due to media errors (bad media) from a
> cd-rom? i had huge problems adding packages with fc1, packages which i
> needed because publishers edition is a very compressed version as i got it
> on only two cd-roms and i needed a compiler (gcc) which could not be added
> because of the futile cd.....unless it's my cd-rom drive which is why i am
> asking if anyone else has experienced this. feel free to reply as any
> information/suggestions would be appreciated. ----MortroM----

If it's broadband, a small external router needs no drivers, just an ethernet 
port to conect to.