Hello Marvin and John,
If John's USB modem is the little white thing with an RJ11 jack at one
end and an USB cord out the other end, it is not a LoseModem. (I refuse
to call the things "win" anything!) The Robotics modem is a sure enough
modem with the controller built in. It responds to AT commands, just
like any good external modem should. The trick is to get the correct
module loaded in the kernel, and get the USB/tty /modem working.
Marvin can address the problem of using scanModem with a USB modem. I
remember reading that scanModem doesn't find USB modems, only PCI modems.
I didn't find the robotics USB modem. There is another site that
explains how to hook up the USB modem. I will look for it tomorrow and
post the result.
My external modem died abruptly after several years of operation. I
got a USB from Radio Shack and found that it is a lose-modem. It also
failed after a week or so... I ordered the US Robotics modem from Amazon
and I am tempted to get a spare or two. Amazon was less than Tiger
Direct or any of the low cost mail order places.
Best regards
Bill Grenoble
On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:36:59 -0400
From: Marvin Stodolsky <marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx>
To: hensandpat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [discuss]opensuse v.s. usrobotics usb modem]
John
Browse http://linmodems.technion.ac.il and download scanModem.gz .
Within a Linux partition
gunzip scanModem.gz
To make it executable:
chmod +x scanModem
Run diagnositics with:
./scanModem
Only the ouput ModemData.txt should be sent to Discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:45 PM, John Heinen <hensandpat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I feel like a guy stopping an unknown house asking "can you help me with
this?
Please don't close the "door" I really need some help. J.H.
Best to take this to discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-russ
John Heinen writes:
