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On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:24:13 +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 7:16 pm, Kai Hendry wrote: > > I think every USB modem should be "standard" (lets hope the manuf. > > adhered), hence by the cheapest. > But USB modems aren't hardware/external modems, they are usually > controllerless software modems that require a Windows-only driver. The USB > modem that I won in the St.Austell raffle doesn't work with RH or Mdk. (or > Debian3) - there aren't any drivers available to configure it. (as far as I > can tell). Works fine with Windows. If you could get a USB modem that was > actually a true external (previously serial) modem, it would work with any > kernel. I haven't seen any. usb.c: registered new driver acm acm.c: v0.21:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters Have you tried this acm driver? http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x332.html > PCMCIA network cards are usually the best use of the slot on your laptop. Agreed. Don't get 3com XJack. They SUCK. Broke mine. :/ In fact those little PCMCIA all suck. :) -Kai -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.