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[ale] How easy using a USB CellModem has become.
- Subject: [ale] How easy using a USB CellModem has become.
- From: jknapka at kneuro.net (JK)
- Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:08:49 -0600
- In-reply-to: <1217814341.3492.7.camel@zest>
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Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 18:53 -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
>> Cables? This is a pcmcia card and works just fine on XP
>> unfortunately.
>
> Ahh. Weird. Why does it get a ttyUSB node created then? I'd think
> it'd simply just show up as a straight serial device instead of a USB
> abstraction of one.
I've encountered some PCMCIA devices that were really just equivalent
USB devices wrapped in a PCMCIA adapter card. My UTStarcomm broadband
modem is like that.
-- JK
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