On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 10:54:24AM -0400, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote: > Thanks for this !! Looks very promising !! > > Seems that USB support for modems is being kept up-to-date in Linux, as the > usb modem driver source code is present in linux 3.16 kernel (used by debian > 8): > > drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c > drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.h > > Also, I see a web page with a Linux patch notice dated 17 November 2014 > "[3.16.y-ckt,stable] Patch "USB: cdc-acm: add quirk for control-line state > requests" has been added to staging queue". > > Now that I think on it, didn't you mention earlier on this thread, getting > access to a mobile device (cell phone?) modem from Linux? > > Using Google, I found lots of documentation on getting USB modems to work on > Linux (including the PPP stuff for the dial-up Internet link). > > So I will try a USRobotics USR5637 56K V.92 USB modem.
That should work as far as I can tell. I still think getting dialup working with linux is a waste of time and money if you plan to go to DSL soon anyhow. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
