Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 18:33:51 +0100 From: Mark Huizer <freebsd@dohd.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Mark Huizer <freebsd@dohd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB modem? Message-ID: <20001201183351.A23979@dohd.cx> In-Reply-To: <14886.44773.764959.490276@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:47:49PM -0600 References: <20001130142814.A10623@dohd.cx> <14886.44773.764959.490276@guru.mired.org>
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> > I have a USB modem here, (Siemens), that I would like to get to work > > under FreeBSD, but I can't even find the right tools to get vendor and > > product ID's to add to usbdevs :-( > Try looking in dmesg - USB device that don't have known product and > vendor ID's have theirs printed. Failing that, check the usbdevs(8) > man page. > > The serious catch about USB modems is that they have to support the > USB CDC spec. Not all of them do. If it does, the serial device will > be umodem0 (1, 2, 3, ...), and you use it just like a tty line tied to > an external modem. > Is it a case of being in the usbdevs list _and_ supporting those specs? Or just following the specs? I have the modem in the office, not at home. And of course there is that tricky part where Windows wants my BIOS set to PNP OS=YES and FreeBSD wants it set to NO. but well :-) we can survive that for the moment. Mark -- Nice testing in little China... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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