From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 1 12: 1: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8887737B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 12:01:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 68697 invoked by uid 100); 1 Dec 2000 20:01:00 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14888.892.485587.954774@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:01:00 -0600 (CST) To: Mark Huizer Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB modem? In-Reply-To: <20001201183351.A23979@dohd.cx> References: <20001130142814.A10623@dohd.cx> <14886.44773.764959.490276@guru.mired.org> <20001201183351.A23979@dohd.cx> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Message: You should get a better mailer. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Huizer types: > > > 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 believe that being listed in usbdevs isn't a requirement, but I'm not positive. I also haven't had any look getting the thing to work dynamically loading the various modules involved. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message