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Playing with a modem

It’s a long time since I installed a modem – at least 8 years. But I had reason to need one attached to the Kurobox, the task being complicated by the Kuro:

  1. running linux
  2. being a PPC box
  3. having no serial ports, only USB

A quick bit of research found the Zoom 3095 which, the manufacturer claims, is linux-compatible. The drivers are from the nice people at linuxant, who collectively do a fine job of providing drivers for Conexant-based modems.

One of their support chaps, Jonathan, could give no assurances that the drivers would work on my PPC box, but still found a way to encourage me to take the plunge and buy the 3095. And I’m glad he did – it works fine, as long as CONFIG_USB_ACM is included in the kernel build.

I should also add that the DGC driver is the only freely available driver of the three that Linuxant support, but I’d have happily paid for it if necessary.

I have, of course, created an entry for the Zoom 3095 at the excellent ‘Linux USB device overview’ website.

For the technically-inclined: this is a Kurobox HG/WR, running Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy), kernel 2.6.23.14. ‘lsusb’ identifies the Zoom 3095 as “0803:3095 Zoom Telephonics, Inc.”. I’m using version 1.03 of the DGC driver from Linuxant.

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Filed under Kuro Box : Comments (0) : Jan 24th, 2008