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jmweirick	Date: March 1, 2004 @ 8:54 PM I have a U.S. Robotics modem, and I can't get it to work under Linux. Does anybody know of a good place for dirvers. U.S. Robotics doesn't provide any Linux drivers officially, but I'm betting somebody cracked it. Thank you in advance for your help.
johnnygnote	Date: March 1, 2004 @ 10:28 PM It would help if you gave more info i.e. model, type PCI etc.. Look here http://www.linmodems.org/ scroll down to Chipsets and the third one is U.S. Robotics with some info there.
tomkerswill	Date: March 2, 2004 @ 6:36 AM You can try typing lspci into a shell. If you then google the information for your modem... that often works
mawcs	Date: March 2, 2004 @ 11:20 AM Its probably a winmodem. This means that it just enought hardware to connect the phone line to the system. All of the compression, dialing, protocol is handled by software... for Windows.
jmweirick	Date: March 5, 2004 @ 7:57 PM what mawcs said.
pog	Date: March 5, 2004 @ 8:07 PM I had an issue like this once.... it turned out the card I was plugging into was unsupported (pci com card). I plugged the modem straight into the mainboard's com port, and the fault cleared
figfarmer	Date: March 5, 2004 @ 11:13 PM If it's a USR it probably isn't a Winmodem.
johnnygnote	Date: March 6, 2004 @ 12:19 PM Actually the low budget USR's are winmodem it's the higher priced units that are not and Linux compatable. http://www.usr.com/home.asp
figfarmer	Date: March 6, 2004 @ 10:23 PM They probably don't sell them in Canada. I've never seen a low priced USR. It's a contradiction in terms here. USR is expensive, but never breaks down.
johnnygnote	Date: March 7, 2004 @ 12:16 AM Wal Mart carries a low budget USR for 29.00 and there are a couple more in the 35 to 40 price range. But you get what you pay for. I use an Actiontech pci true modem http://www.actiontec.com/support/modems/pm560lki.html works great with Linux after a little script writing. Here's a couple of good links for modesm and Linux http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO-2.html http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/PCImodems.html#howto http://walbran.org/sean/linux/linmodem-howto-3.html#ss3.3
jmweirick	Date: March 8, 2004 @ 8:21 PM i got the low end ones that jonnygnote was talking about. It came with my computer, which I bought before I even knew what linux was. Despite my efforts to find a crack for linux, since USR doesn't have it officially, I believe that I will have to buy a new one or stick with windows for internet.

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