Re: Network install

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

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> 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'.

...  My problem now is that after netinstall, even installing ppp in expert
mode, that command turns to be `not found'.

Thanks,

Rodolfo