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Re: Can a US Robotics USB Softmodem be made to work on Linux?

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On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, Jason wrote:
> I have a U.S. Robotics USR5639 USB modem. I am wondering how hard it
> is to get it to work with Linux. Using Mint 18.1.

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> Bus 001 Device 006: ID 047e:2892 Agere Systems, Inc. (Lucent) Systems Soft Modem

Look for ltmodem and linmodem.  If you are very lucky, it is for that
generation of softmodems.  But last time I checked, it was for 2.6
kernels, you'd need its source, and to forward-port it.

Here's an starting point:
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/

> Is it practical to try to make this work or should I just get a 'real'
> modem?

I'd get a real modem.

It is bad enough you'll waste a lot of CPU on crap USB-RS232 conversion,
running a full V.92 stack in kernel mode at RT priority on top is too
annoying for words.

-- 
  Henrique Holschuh

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Can a US Robotics USB Softmodem be made to work on Linux? Jason <electron@emypeople.net> - 2017-06-15 23:10 +0200
  Re: Can a US Robotics USB Softmodem be made to work on Linux? Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-06-15 23:40 +0200
  Re: Can a US Robotics USB Softmodem be made to work on Linux? Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-06-16 01:00 +0200
  Re: Can a US Robotics USB Softmodem be made to work on Linux? JPlews <jw@plews.org.uk> - 2017-06-23 19:20 +0200

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