I ordered this dial up modem, a USRobotics USB5637. It comes with skimpy information for Linux. It says that it will work on kernel 2.4.20 and higher, and that the Linux distro must contain driver CDC ACM, and has Plug and Play enabled. When I installed it I was using a Puppy that I had used before ...

I bought this pcmcia moden hoping it would work, I didn't realize that this card type is obsolete, it didn't fit in my newer Dell laptop, but works very well in my older HP, in fact it is exccelent!

Puppy Wary 102 recognized it immediately and dialed out on S1

Hi Since my last post I have uninstalled all my Puppys and have gone to the library and downloaded and installed Wary .9 into Virtualbox. It immediately found the external dial up modem and dialed out. It stays on-line for a few seconds and then drops off. Once I realized that it was not going to wo...

Hello There It is winter in Canada so I have some time to work on this. I have tried to get my Puppy Lupu 500 to dial out with no succes, mounted on a flashdrive. I decided I wanted a little more secure instalation and have installed it in Virtualbox. In Virtualbox i connected the guest (Puppy) to t...

Hello Rerwin I also have to stop working on this as I have to go back to work today (Mon) On the past weekend I tried to blacklist and erase agrserial about 10 times and it would not go away. Thank you very much for your help :-) ----------------------------------------------------------- My Puppy o...

Hello Rerwin I ran pmodemdiag but must have messed up somehow because the file was empty :-( sorry about that. The external modem I am using plugs into the 9 pin serial port. The first time I booted with the modem not plugged in there was no cdc_acm. When I plugged in the external modem and booted t...

Hello Rerwin I can't tell you how excited I am to be able to dial in. I have been fiddling with Linux now for about 5 years and Puppy is the first that allowed me to dial in :-) :-) Now I will be able to start exploring and learning the system :-) I followed your directions, installed the 2 files an...

Hello Muggins The internal modem is an Agere Systems AC'97 Modem. The computer is an HP nc6000 laptop When I boot Puppy I forgot that it says "you may need to supply an initialisation string" Initialisation string 2 ATZ Initialisation string 3 there is nothing. Modem Port /dev/ttySHSF0 pro...

Hello There I was very Happy to discover Puppy Linux and have had some success with it. I have burned an ISO and created a bootable USB :-) I have spent several years getting ready to try Linux and have read tutorials in regards to what dial up modems work, and have prepared in advance with buying a...