Hello Russell, Thanks for your message. My comments are inline below. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell Reiter" <rreiter91@gmail.com> To: "GTALUG Talk" <talk@gtalug.org>; "Steve Petrie, P.Eng." <apetrie@aspetrie.net> Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2016 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;
On Jul 30, 2016 1:28 AM, "Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
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This device looks promising to me. New Old Stock is the reason I go to Above All etc.
http://m.ebay.ca/itm/US-Robotics-56K-USB-Modem-Windows-Mac-Linux-/2723053260...
http://support.usr.com/support/5637/5637-ug/install.html
Here's a snippet from the support page.
"Linux Kernel 2.4.20 and Higher
You need a USB modem driver (CDC ACM) compiled into a Linux kernel 2.4.20 or higher or as a loadable module for your kernel. Installation of the modem under these kernels is fully automatic provided your kernel has the Plug and Play module enabled (default). You do not need to install any drivers off the USRobotics installation CD-ROM. "
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. <snip>
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