On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 05:57:03PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > 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.
But how much does a non-winmodem modem cost me? Or a winmodem that happens to work with ALSA? > > > Do these modem need a special driver? > > USB modems have a very high probability of being WinModems in my experience; (Basically: like PCI ones) > 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. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
