On 2010-10-09 19:26:42 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Oct 9, 2010, at 6:49 PM, Camaleón wrote: [big snip] > > O.k. I also think geting an USB modem to work should just be plug and > > play and no needing to mess with drivers at all. But it could worst: > > there are some embedded modems (those you can find in notebooks) that > > lack of any driver and they render completely useless. > > Yes, that's true. And, unfortunately, I had information indicating > that any USB modem would be similar to RS-232 in that it'd be > plug-n-play. That's not so. And, while I'm looking at embedded > computers (right now I'm waiting to see if the new Soekris Net-6501 > will do well for me), at least the modems aren't embedded! And if I > do use Soekris, they have a serial port -- you HAVE to use as a > terminal during setup, so once I get the original image created and > working, I can copy it to an image file and easily install it on > flash cards and just insert it, without using the serial port on > each one. And when they're deployed, I may be able to use it for an > RS-232 modem, but I'm not committing to that yet. >
I had an external USB modem that was initially very gratifying, to use with a computer that had no serial port. I plugged it in, the system found it, and I was online in minutes. No external drivers. It was a very nice experience after having spent many hours trying to get drivers to work for WinModem cards. The one I used was US Robotics, but I can't lay my hand on it right this minute to say the product number. I did have some problems with this modem over time. The main thing I remember is it would get moved from /dev/ttyUSB0 to /dev/ttyUSB1 occasionally. Or sometimes when the machine was booted the device wouldn't get established. I don't know if these were problems with the modem or my system. I wanted to point out that the modem I had initially seemed very good because of how easy installation was. But that's not the whole story. And that there are some plug and play USB modems out there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101010021707.gb2...@kasploosh.net
