hweier@freenet.de wrote:
Hello,
though I'm not an expert on Linux, I live in Germany and hope, this helps you:
On Sat, 2002-05-18, 10.38 Nick Selby wrote:
On Saturday 18 May 2002 06:17, Dennis J.Tuchler wrote:
I will be taking by S.u.S.E. - laden laptop to Germany and need some advice. I am informed that I will have an isdn line to the apartment where I will be staying. I have two questions: (1) what sort of a connection do I need for an isdn line? A modem plus telephone plug, or an ethernet card plus a network line or ... ? (2) Do I need any special drivers or applications to make the connection work?
This will depend on the isp to an extent. If you get t-online from Deutsche Telecom they often have a special for isdn adapters you can get with the service really cheap. In the short run, you can get a isdn to analog converter if you want to use your existing phone. If you do that you can dial up to your isp with your current modem. That will sacrifice the extra speed but it's okay until you get the isdn modem. Later, you can get either a pcmcia isdn card or you can buy a universal isdn interface box that you can connect your analog phones to as well as your laptop with a serial cable. The serial cable solution will allow you to use the standard 64kb/s connection or the 128kb/s dual channel setup. This is of course dependent on your isp offering the 128kb service. D. Telecom offers it. You need to make sure the box you buy either has drivers for the OS's you want to use or it needs to support AT mode. If it supports AT mode linux will see it as any other external modem. Before you explore those options I suggest you see if cable or dsl are available in your area. They are many times faster and much cheaper to use when you consider phone line (connection) charges which are NOT cheap in Europe. Here, you get NO free local calls. JS