[ale] Share my frustration: what do you do for fax/data modems?

[vernard at venger.net (Vernard Martin)]

Just like Byron, I am doing modem stuff at the moment.

The situation: I have a Dell Itanium machine running RedHat Enterprise 
Linux. It has no USB ports. I have a USB-to-Serial adapater plugged in 
and its working fine. I'm using an external  USRobotics modem to do SMS 
messages with the Nagios monitoring system.

Since the machine is a rackmount, I'd like to eliminate the external 
modem and its power supply brick and replace it with an internal modem.  
But the problem of course if finding an internal PCI modem that is 
supported under linux as well. I don't mind spending money on this as 
its a enterprise critical system.

My current attempts at finding a solution was to purchase a $10 modem at 
Frys that claimed it had linux support. Unfortunately its mostly linux 
2.4 kernel support. The 2.6 support doesn't complain cleanly and I'm 
trying to muddle through that.

Where can I buy a modem that will definitely work with linux?

Vernard