On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:21:44 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Camaleón wrote:
>> > You will have to buy a driver from Linuxant if you want that thing to >> > work. >> >> Why? Is the free version of their software not working at all? :-? > > Can you actually use 14k4 for anything? If you need the modem, you > likely need the full support. I'd say that depends. Having a modem that works at a speed of 14.400 bps can have its uses, for instance, sending (or receiving) a sporadic fax or to send teleguard warnings. Of course, if your main goal is browsing YouTube or having an "always on" connection, you better get a UMTS modem. > Yes, the "free beer" version works. But it is NOT worth the hassle of > installing or loading that driver as a "just have" IMO. Do it only if > you _need_ it, and if you need it, get the full version to at least pay > something back to linuxant for the driver developement and encourage > them to keep maintaining it so that it will still work on later kernels. Yes, that's also my understanding. Moreover, if I needed a dial-up link on the notebook, I would go for an external modem without any doubt, but sometimes there is no other choice :-( >> I thougth softmodems were really bad but Conexant chipset based ones at >> least provide two sets of drivers... are you saying nooone work? > > Both worked last time I tried them in a T43, and 2.6.26 kernel. I have > not bothered to recompile it and check against 2.6.32 and 2.6.35, and I > have no idea if it even know how to deal with 3.0. Ah, good. >> >> Or better yet, get a real modem >:-) >> > >> > That would be either a cdc-acm USB device, which can be rather >> > difficult to find... or a USB RS232 dongle plus an async RS232 modem >> > (large and somewhat expensive). >> >> Uh? A plain USB or a PCMCIA/Smart PC card (being both hardware based >> modems) will do the job quite well. Anything is better than an embedded >> modem. > > Plain USB has to be cdc-acm (full serial device) to work in Linux. > Finding them is not that easy in some parts of the world, and most are > not produced anymore. The smartcard ones are even worse. YMMV. Yes, I know. But there are companies (Zoom or USRobotics) that still make that kind of modems and they work with Linux. Some links: http://www.zoomtel.com/products/dial_up_external_usb.html http://www.zoomtel.com/products/dial_up_pc_card.html http://www.usr.com/products/modem/modem-product.asp?type=specs&sku=USR5637 And those came from well-know companies, there should be another unknown modems that are also working with Linux. It requires a bit of digging but sure there are. > The T43 embedded modem with full (paid) linuxant drivers used to work > well, as long as I never tried to suspend (those drivers are NOT even > close to perfect). I haven't needed the modem for two years now, so I > didn't bother testing the driver in recent kernels. Good to know. At least there is a driver that makes the device to work. My Toshiba Tecra A7 also integrates a dial-up modem that is not even detected by the kernel (which I don't need it but it should be nice to have such option, you never know...) ;-( Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2011.06.24.11.47...@gmail.com
