[GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

[Lennart Sorensen]

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