How to 'talk' to USB modem in Ubuntu 12.04 after being found with lsusb?
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How to 'talk' to USB modem in Ubuntu 12.04 after being found with lsusb?
I have a USB modem that is identified in Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) with lsusb as
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0572:1329 Conexant Systems (Rockwell), Inc.
My question: How to talk to that device (e.g. with microcom etc?)? What dev device should I use? There is no /dev/ttyUSBXXX available and just one /dev/ttyACM0. Is it the ACM0? How to know?
Location: Northeastern Michigan, where Carhartt is a Designer Label
Distribution: Slackware 32- & 64-bit Stable
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You may want to take a look at USB_ModeSwitch (http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/). It may already be installed on your system. If I remember correctly, Conexant modems need to be switched-out and that's what USB_ModeSwitch does.
I have a usb modem and the correct driver for it is /dev/ttyACM0. Select it as your modem and if it isn't the correct driver you will get modem errors, when dialing out. Here is a link to how to dial out. http://www.ubuntugeek.com/setting-up...in-ubuntu.html
Last edited by colorpurple21859; 09-25-2012 at 09:29 AM.
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