[ale] new MFP Printer needed

[Michael Trausch]

On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 14:54 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> More then likely you can identify a real modem in two ways.  If it
> says 
> it only works with windows, it's not.  Also, hardware modems will cost
> a 
> bit more, don't think you can touch one for under $50 these days.
> The 
> winmodems, you can get for < $20. 

Not always on the first one; many vendors claim that all their hardware
only works with Windows, because that is the only configuration that
they directly support.

Though price is one way to tell with a reasonable degree of certainty, I
have one way that I measure it:  I find someone who has one and see if
it works.  :-)

You can even get hardware modems that connect by way of USB.  I need to
go look up the one that I found a couple of weeks ago.  I'm going to be
purchasing it soon, because the modem built-in to my laptop only has a
driver for a particular 32-bit 2.6 kernel release, and I am *certainly*
not going to run that.

	--- Mike

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