If you watch dmesg as you plug it in the kernel should spit out messages that a USB device has been detected. At the very least you should see it detect the productID:vendorID.
You can also run lsusb to look for it. The device IDs are important to determine if you have a driver, and if so how to get it to load. There are hardware databases that we can look up to see if this device is working under linux. -Ben ------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, December 15th, 2022 at 5:39 PM, Michael Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently acquired a MS2131i-8 USB Cellular Modem. Supposedly, I can just > plug it into a USB port and use it to access the Internet. Not a lot of > other details. > > Nothing seems to happen plugging it in, no indications on dmesg or > anything. On Windows, it gave a popup saying no driver available. > > Anybody know anything about these? > > Thanks, > Michael
