From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 1 9:33:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from eeyore.local.dohd.org (d0030.dtk.chello.nl [213.46.0.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143C837B401 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 09:33:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by eeyore.local.dohd.org (Postfix, from userid 1008) id A71F3BA9D; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 18:33:51 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 18:33:51 +0100 From: Mark Huizer To: Mike Meyer Cc: Mark Huizer , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB modem? Message-ID: <20001201183351.A23979@dohd.cx> References: <20001130142814.A10623@dohd.cx> <14886.44773.764959.490276@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <14886.44773.764959.490276@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:47:49PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I have a USB modem here, (Siemens), that I would like to get to work > > under FreeBSD, but I can't even find the right tools to get vendor and > > product ID's to add to usbdevs :-( > Try looking in dmesg - USB device that don't have known product and > vendor ID's have theirs printed. Failing that, check the usbdevs(8) > man page. > > The serious catch about USB modems is that they have to support the > USB CDC spec. Not all of them do. If it does, the serial device will > be umodem0 (1, 2, 3, ...), and you use it just like a tty line tied to > an external modem. > Is it a case of being in the usbdevs list _and_ supporting those specs? Or just following the specs? I have the modem in the office, not at home. And of course there is that tricky part where Windows wants my BIOS set to PNP OS=YES and FreeBSD wants it set to NO. but well :-) we can survive that for the moment. Mark -- Nice testing in little China... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message