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[Robert W Best <rwbest@xxxxxxx>]

See http://www.linmodems.org/
Robert

On Thursday 31 January 2008 19:51:46 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> El 2008-02-01 a las 00:56 +0530, umesh b escribió:
>
> (You forgot to email to the list)
>
> > On Jan 30, 2008 6:27 PM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
> > > I never buy modems with propietary software. Now you know why.
> > > > :-)
> >
> > actually the modem was provided by the local telco..and the
> > driver CD was only for Win.. :-(
> > However being a USB modem i tried to use it in Linux. Its
> > actually a USB CDMA modem, ZTE make.. model AC8700
>
> The fact is that, if the modem requires a driver, it is not a
> standard modem and you will have problems making it work under
> linux. I have no experience making such things work, because I
> don't want to use them: I'm fortunate to own a plain serial port
> external modem. But now and then people explain how they got their
> model working: search this list archive, the wiki pages, google...
> I'm sorry I can not give you more help.
>
> The needed info will be the output of the command "hwinfo --modem",
> as root. That will tell you how linux sees it, perhaps the chipset,
> and just maybe, somebody knows something.
>
> HTH.

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