URRobotics 56K* V.92+ Faxmodem USB

Nicolas George · External Since: Jul 31, 2007 Posts: 8

Hi.

Does anyone here have a "USRobotics 56K* V.92+ Faxmodem USB"
http://www.usr-emea.com/products/p-dialup-product.asp?prod=hom-5633b&loc=frnc
? Does it work with Linux?

(USR tech support says no, but it may just mean they do not want to support
it.)

Vince Coen · External Since: Apr 13, 2004 Posts: 62

Hello Nicolas!

31 Jul 07 20:16, Nicolas George wrote to All:

NG> Does anyone here have a "USRobotics 56K* V.92+ Faxmodem USB"
NG> http://www.usr-emea.com/products/p-dialup-product.asp?prod=hom-5633b&l
NG> oc=frnc ? Does it work with Linux?

NG> (USR tech support says no, but it may just mean they do not want to
NG> support it.)

I have a USR Courier V.All that works with Windox.all (Not tested with vista),
OS/2, MSDOS, PCDOS, Linux all versions.

That said it is NOT a USB device but a serial port one.

It might be worth checking the hardware support site for your distro although
I don't see why there should be a problem using a current distribution.

Hope this helps in some way,

Vince

Nicolas George · External Since: Jul 31, 2007 Posts: 8

"Vince Coen" wrote in message <1185982206.DeleteThis@f609.n257.z2.fidonet.ftn>:
> That said it is NOT a USB device but a serial port one.

Thanks, but that is actually the USB version I am interested in: I am pretty
sure that the serial version would work, but it is more than twice the
price, not counting the USB-serial adapter (as my computer does not have a
serial port).

> It might be worth checking the hardware support site for your distro although

I usually build my own kernel from the vanilla one.

> I don't see why there should be a problem using a current distribution.

Well, if there is no driver for that modem, I do not see how it could work.

Unfortunately, to check that, I would need the USB Ids of the modem, and
they do not seem to be available on the web nor in the standard usb.ids
database.

Harold Stevens · External Since: Jan 01, 2005 Posts: 382

In <46af9889$0$14298$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Nicolas George:

[Snip...]

> http://www.usr-emea.com/products/p-dialup-product.asp?prod=hom-5633b&loc=frnc

It's apparently (from the URL above) a 5633b (I guess?).

> ? Does it work with Linux?

I did a search on USR 5633b modem with google.com/linux, and it wasn't too
encouraging in terms of getting it to work with Linux (AFAICT).

> (USR tech support says no, but it may just mean they do not want to support
> it.)

I suspect they really mean it. IMO, USR is one of the better vendors about
explicitly mentioning Linux/Mac/whatever support (if actually available).

For instance I've used their 5610b (now 5610c) legacy serial modems for my
Linux/FreeBSD/whatever installs, years now with no problems.

For example, look at the Linux support mentioned in

http://www.usr.com/products/home/home-product.asp?type=specs&sku=USR5610C

under "Minimum System Requirements" specs. Linux is mentioned first. Smile

HTH; YMMV...

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Nicolas George · External Since: Jul 31, 2007 Posts: 8

Harold Stevens wrote in message
<slrnfb1e4n.583.wookie RemoveThis @aces.localdomain>:
> It's apparently (from the URL above) a 5633b (I guess?).

It seems so, but this number only appears as part of a "product number":
USR065633B. I do not know if removing the 06 is allowed or not.

> I did a search on USR 5633b modem with google.com/linux, and it wasn't too
> encouraging in terms of getting it to work with Linux (AFAICT).
<snip>
> I suspect they really mean it. IMO, USR is one of the better vendors about
> explicitly mentioning Linux/Mac/whatever support (if actually available).

Too bad Sad

> For instance I've used their 5610b (now 5610c) legacy serial modems for my
> Linux/FreeBSD/whatever installs, years now with no problems.
>
> For example, look at the Linux support mentioned in
>
> http://www.usr.com/products/home/home-product.asp?type=specs&sku=USR5610C
>
> under "Minimum System Requirements" specs. Linux is mentioned first. Smile

I had spotted that. But "supporting" Linux on serial modems does not cost
anything.

I believe I will settle on the 5668D plus an USB-RS232 adapter.

Unless someone has other advices: that is the voice part I am interested in,
to use as an answering machine. I do not need actual modem features: a sound
card with a RJ11 plug would suit me perfectly (except for the called-Id
feature).