Winmodems are not supported due to patent and NDA issues from the chip vendors. So buy an external modem. Or use M$ software and grin and bear.

Ok, so it's a lawyer thing not a programmer thing. Guess will just get a PCMCIA card as far as laptops are concerned. Cheap and best. For the desktops, avoiding the use of external modem. Will try and get the Conexant working at 48.8 K atleast. Anyone who thinks the challenge and a beer are enough incentives to get the drivers developed, raise your hand.

IMO Debian sarge fits the bill completely except for the internal modem.I have completely clueless people using Sarge (including two sixty two year olds) with tata indicom, dishnet, incable, sify etc. They use webcams, usbflashdisks, burn cds and announce that they use debian linux with a smirk at their peers when someone sobs about virii, worms, spyware.

So looks like this is what I should go for. Another question I had in mind was Support. In anycase support the linux is limited. You know what I mean. Not the company bag and laptop carrying, tie wearing support exec. But our regular hardware guy support person. So would choosing Debian or other over Fedora create support issues? Or given that support is so negligible anyways, it wouldnt matter if it's one distro or the other?

Also no mention of FreeBSD in favor or otherwise, so I am assuming, we should stick to the server side for this.

Also, is there a way I can get copies of the Sarge distro from you? I am bandwidth challenged.

Muchos Gracias abhishek

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