Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> writes: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 04:09:46PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: >> On 29/01/2015 15:39, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > Rodolfo Medina a écrit : >> >> >> >> To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. >> > >> > I doubt so. A "pendrive" is not a modem, it is a storage device. >> >> Bet he's referring to 3g/4g cell card as a "pendrive modem" or perhaps >> is using a wired USB modem that happens to look similar to a storage device. > > Such things do exist. There are modems that, on first connection appear > to be a USB Mass Storage device (i.e. a pen drive) upon which the user > can find drivers for the modem (though, typically, these drivers only > work with a very limited number of operating systems). > > In these cases, debian can use the package "usbmodeswitch" to send the > command to switch the USB device into modem mode, at which point the PPP > connection can be made.
I've been using for years that device simply with the command `pon'. Thanks, Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87zj908qr9....@gmail.com