USB device detection in Fedora Core 2

David L Norris dave at webaugur.com
Mon Jul 5 22:38:10 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 22:02 -0400, Chris Mendis wrote:
> My USB DSL modem was not detected when I installed Fedora Core 2.  The 
> modem is a Speedstream 5200.  Full specs can be found here:
> http://att.com.com/Efficient_Networks_SpeedStream_5200___DSL_modem/4507-3004_7-30681820.html?tag=tab
> 
> Does anyone have any hints or tips as to how I could get Fedora to 
> recognize this USB device?

You probably cannot use the USB port.  Most manufactures don't bother
providing non-Windows drivers for devices which also have Ethernet
ports.  It should be reasonably easy to make the device work via
Ethernet.

-- 
 David Norris
  http://www.webaugur.com/dave/
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