fredex wrote (about modems):
> both external AND serial, NOT USB.
Um. The USB standards people seem to have provided standardised
interfaces for a lot of things, including external drives and modems.
Not all USB modems bother to implement the CDC ACM standard, but some
do. I understand that those that do implement this standard should work
under Fedora.
If you have the kernel-doc package installed, read
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.18/Documentation/usb/acm.txt . It says
"Check for ACM compliance before buying."
Come to that, when I plugged my old (Motorola) mobile phone in, Fedora
automatically created a ttyAMC0 device node for it.
Having said all that, the last modem I used regularly was a 56K ISA
internal one which wasn't even plug'n'play. It was ideal for Linux. So I
can't recommend USB CDC ACM modems based on personal experience.
Hope this helps,
James.
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