Re: usb dial up modem?

On Friday 16 May 2008 05:45:49 pm ISHWAR RATTAN wrote:
> Any one using USR5633b USB dialup exyernal modem with Linux?
> I am looking for one that will work under Linux
> as the new computer does not have serial ports!

Yikes!  Thank God PCI serial cards are under $10.

> Do these modem need a special driver?

USB modems have a very high probability of being WinModems in my experience;
I'm not finding anything suggesting that this particular modem is real or not
one way or the other.  When you plug it in, do you get anything in your
syslog?  If you're lucky enough, you should see some kind of output, maybe
even a new device entry in /dev/ that acts like a serial port.

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Paul Johnson
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