Re: USR Sportster PnP + Linux: Does it work?

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From: Damian Trybus
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 07:45

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Paul S Secinaro wrote:
> 
> I will probably be buying a US Robotics Sportster 28.8 internal modem
> soon (found it on sale for $150 and got a rain check), and I'm
> wondering if anyone has had any problems with this device under Linux?
> I ask because USR now advertises that this modem has Plug 'n Play
> capability, and I've heard that Linux has problems with some PnP
> devices like network cards.  My gut feeling is that it's probably not
> a big deal, but has anyone actually used one of the newer USR's with
> Linux?

I am using a PnP Supra Express 28.8 with no problems under Linux.
Win 95 configured the modem to be on com3 and use IRQ10.  Since it is
not the standard setup under Linux I had to play with the setserial
commnad and now everything is running fine.

Good Luck

Damian

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From: Damian Trybus <dtrybus@mustang.uwo.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: USR Sportster PnP + Linux: Does it work?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 19:15:17 +1130
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