US Robotics Driver ??

[m_kaleia]

Hello
I have an external modem" USRobotics 56k faxmodem USB " and I send a message to it's company to get the driver for it but they say " there is no driver for it under Linux " !! so what can I do is there any driver for it , help me .

thanks

[D-cat]

Nope, they're right.
External USB modems (assuming they're not the newer "softmodems") when you plug them in install themselves to a virtual serial tty interface. Usually, udev is nice enough to alias it for you to /dev/modem for whatever program you're using to access it. If not, you'll have to seek it out, there's a few common spots that most configuration utilties look for, for USB that's usually /dev/(usb/)ttyACM0, or /dev/usb/acm/0.

Extract from the Linux Modem Howto:

Linux has support for modems that conform to the USB Communication Device Class Abstract Control Model (= USB CDC ACM). There's a module for ACM named acm.o. See the /usb/acm.txt document in the kernel documentation directory (/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.x in Debian, perhaps /usr/doc/kernel... in some distributions). The ACM "serial port" for the first (0th) such modem is: /dev/usb/acm/0 or possibly /dev/usb/ttyACM0.

[m_kaleia]

thanks I will read this "Linux Modem Howto:" thread and try to understand how to deal with this problem
thanks again.