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Hi guys,
I have an Acer Aspire 1620. I run now SUSE 9.3, and I had also tried Mandrake 10.1, Fedora Core 4 and Ubuntu. None had identified the internal modem, and that's the point, neither my external US Robotics USB modem (model 5633). US Robotics has a driver for model 5610 in their website. My questions are:
1) Is it possible to find a driver directly? ( I tried google - suggest a better query?)
2) Is it possible to write my own driver? (possibly based on driver for model 5610 - mentioned above)
Hi guys,
I have an Acer Aspire 1620. I run now SUSE 9.3, and I had also tried Mandrake 10.1, Fedora Core 4 and Ubuntu. None had identified the internal modem, and that's the point, neither my external US Robotics USB modem (model 5633). US Robotics has a driver for model 5610 in their website. My questions are:
1) Is it possible to find a driver directly? ( I tried google - suggest a better query?)
2) Is it possible to write my own driver? (possibly based on driver for model 5610 - mentioned above)
Thanx in advance
the answer to both of your question is YES.
but configuring a USB modem is really-really very frustrating job. 90% of people will advise you to throw that away and bring some Ethernet modem (which gets connected to your NIC card).
configuring internal and USB modems is a frustrating and time taking job. The easiest ones are dial-up and ethernet modems.
And if you have skills to write the device drives then surely you can go ahead to write them youself
I'm running Mandriva 2006 with a 3Com external, serial 56K modem and by use of KPPP, the modem and port were identified correctly and configured to run without any 3rd party drivers. Gnomes dialer does not work for me. Install and run the KPPP dialer before ditching the existing modem.
I'm running Mandriva 2006 with a 3Com external, serial 56K modem and by use of KPPP, the modem and port were identified correctly and configured to run without any 3rd party drivers. Gnomes dialer does not work for me. Install and run the KPPP dialer before ditching the existing modem.
KPPP is for dial-up modems and not for USB or Ethernet modems.
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