Re: Are there real USB or PCMCIA modems available

From: Mikael Pettersson (mikpe_at_harpo.csd.uu.se)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: 25 Aug 2004 16:44:51 +0100

In article <pan.2004.08.25.14.33.15.74123@yahoo.com>,
General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Do you know how transparent the USB to serial converters are? Do they
>require all sorts of fiddling or will Fedora be able to recognize a modem
>connected via a USB to serial converter?

Assuming you have hotplug installed and you chose a supported converter,
it should come up as /dev/ttyUSB<n> and be usable as a regular serial port.
See Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt in the kernel source. 

-- 
Mikael Pettersson (mikpe@csd.uu.se)
Computing Science Department, Uppsala University

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