Re: external US Robotics modem configuration

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:24:20AM -0200, Rodrigo Otavio Weymar Fonseca wrote:

> I am newbie with Debian and I bought a external US Robotics 56K modem.
> 
> I would like to know what is the way to make Debian 3.0 Woody to
> recognize it.
> 
> I just pluged it to a serial port of my box, but it is not enough to
> the system torecognize the modem.
> 
> Could someone help me?

One easy way to do it, is to run wvdial (apt-get install wvdial if you
don't have it on your system) which should detect the modem.

Regards.
Johann
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