modem usr 5637

[John Heinen]

Brendan wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 August 2008, John Heinen wrote:
>   
>>   I bought a usb/ usrobotics5637, it sends and receives faxes etc, it
>> works for windows, apple/mac, and linux. minimum off 2.4.20 or higher
>>   It was easy  to install it within wind xp but I don't know how how to
>> install it in
>> Fedora.2.6.23 linux.
>> I tried: system, preference, hardware, keyboard, palm dev, etc
>> or application, sys tools,
>> or   system administration, network device control.but no dice!!
>> It's crazy, it was so easy with windows, why not with Fedora or opensusy
>> Suggestions??
>>     
>
> Probably a good first suggestion is to see if it is seen by the system...
>
> lspci
> will reveal that, and/or 
> less /var/log/dmesg
>
> Then, 
> apt-cache search modem
> reveals lots of software that should "see" the modem, like kppp for KDE...
>
> Remember, modems are not being used by a lot of the developers nowadays, so 
> the software might not get worked on as fervently.
>
>   
Thank you Brendan