[Voyage-linux] Connectivity through a 3G USB modem

[Konstantinos Birkos]

Yes, this was the case. My modem is recognized, and can get an IP from 
the network (although I have no internet access, but I suppose this is a 
matter of provider-related configuration). Thank you all for your hints.

Regards,
Kostas

On 23/5/2011 11:34 πμ, Adrian Reyer wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 02:11:36AM +0300, Konstantinos Birkos wrote:
>> specific problems but not a concrete set of instructions.  Just to
>> mention that when I plug the modem it is recognized as a scsi usb
>> storage device and a scsi CD-ROM drive but no ttyUSB0 or ttyUSB1
>> appears as a device. Any point to start with?
> Maybe this is one of these sticks that pretends to be a CDROM to enable
> windows users to install the drivers first. The drivers then tell the
> stick to change it's configuration. Afterwards you see the ttyUSB* and
> usually it is a different USB ID. With linux the package
> 'usb-modeswitch' does the trick.
>
> Regards,
> 	Adrian


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