I have a new notebook with no serial ports and a useless winmodem. I have
a Keyspan USB to Serial converter which according to the kernel notes is
supported. How do I configure an external modem using the USB to serial
converter on Fedora Core 2?

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General Schvantzkoph wrote:

> I have a new notebook with no serial ports and a useless winmodem. I have
> a Keyspan USB to Serial converter which according to the kernel notes is
> supported. How do I configure an external modem using the USB to serial
> converter on Fedora Core 2?

Forget it. The Keyspan USB converter is not a real RS232 interface, and it
cannot cope with data rates above a crawl. I have the same unit, and I have
done extensive testing.

Buy a serial modem.

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Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com

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On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 16:21:16 -0400, General Schvantzkoph wrote:

> I have a new notebook with no serial ports and a useless winmodem. I have
> a Keyspan USB to Serial converter which according to the kernel notes is
> supported. How do I configure an external modem using the USB to serial
> converter on Fedora Core 2?

I got it working, it's trivial. The device is /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 use that
instead of the choices that the modem control panel presents you and
everything works.

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