Re: Network install

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 04:09:46PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote:
>> On 29/01/2015 15:39, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> > Rodolfo Medina a écrit :
>> >> 
>> >> To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem.
>> > 
>> > I doubt so. A "pendrive" is not a modem, it is a storage device.
>> 
>> Bet he's referring to 3g/4g cell card as a "pendrive modem" or perhaps
>> is using a wired USB modem that happens to look similar to a storage device.
>
> Such things do exist. There are modems that, on first connection appear
> to be a USB Mass Storage device (i.e. a pen drive) upon which the user
> can find drivers for the modem (though, typically, these drivers only
> work with a very limited number of operating systems).
>
> In these cases, debian can use the package "usbmodeswitch" to send the
> command to switch the USB device into modem mode, at which point the PPP
> connection can be made.


I've been using for years that device simply with the command `pon'.

Thanks,

Rodolfo