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Topic: External Modem help (USB to serial)

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ShaneRay

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Posted: July 10 2005,14:11

Well, after trying for months to get my winmodem to work in linux, I gave up and ordered a USR external off of ebay. When it arrived, I was looking forward to getting up and running. So what happens? I find out my one and only serial port is dead...lol.

Anyway, I finally had no choice but to go out and purchase a USB to serial adapter (cheaper than a PCI serial card). It works great in XP, SuSE and Ubuntu. However, I can't get it to work in DSL.

DSL "appears" to communicate with it, but just exits the script in the end. The modem should be at /dev/ttyUSB0--that is the only location where the dail script does anything other than exit, so I assume it sees somthing there. I'm wondering if it's perhaps that the other distros are on the 2.6 kernal and DSL is on an updated 2.4??

Well, any insights would be appreciated.

Thanks

cbagger01

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Posted: July 10 2005,15:26

I doubt it.

Standard USB serial devices are not a new development.

Try to connect to your port using Microcom and type:

AT

to see if your modem responds with an OK

ShaneRay

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Posted: July 12 2005,21:16

Thanks, cbagger.

After a couple of busy days, I'll give this a shot and see what happens.

I did notice in dmesg, however, that the serial port is being seen no problem and the drivers loaded. The system just won't communicate with the modem.

I'll run minicom and see...

Thanks

ShaneRay

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Posted: July 12 2005,21:48

Well, Just ran Microcom...It wouldn't even connect to the port, it seems. According to the instructions, I typed:

microcom -D/dev/ttyUSB0

And is just hung there causing me to close xterm.

I;m outta ideas...I'll google some more with the hopes something will stick out.

Man, why did I hafta buy a house out in the country without broadband???why??? LOL