[Sheflug] Re: Modems

[Richard Ibbotson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan

> I hope newbies are welcome here, because I am one. 

Mostly

>  But anyway, you'll be
> pleased to know I've seen the light and have erased Windows off my
> home PC!!!!

Oh my God !  Sane reasoning at last ! :)

> I'm aware of this winmodem issue and I think my old 56k was a
> winmodem (I always bought cheap!), so that's gone, but I have an
> ISDN card, which is really what I want to get working.  It's a
> Eicon Diva PCI internal card.  It came with drivers but obviously
> only for Win 98 & 2000.

The Diva can be a bit odd.  Is it the 2.0 version or one of the others 
? You can get the BT Speedway card from www.ebay.co.uk in a box for 
about £10.  That's what I use.  works fine.  

> HELP!

This is a bit out of date but should help a little bit.  Make sure you 
check out the links to other sites on this page..

http://www.sheflug.co.uk/isdn.htm

and these as well..

http://www.isdn4linux.de/
http://www.isdn4linux.de/links.shtml

> On another note, does the membership of this LUG extend as far
> south as Newark or am I too soft and southern like for guys?

As long as you can drink ten pints of bitter on a night at ..

www.hillsboroughhotel.com 

then you should be welcome :)


-- 
Thanks



Richard

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