[ale] How easy using a USB CellModem has become.

[Jim Lynch]

JK wrote:
> Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 18:53 -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
>>     
>>> Cables?  This is a pcmcia card and works just fine on XP
>>> unfortunately.
>>>       
>> Ahh.  Weird.  Why does it get a ttyUSB node created then?  I'd think
>> it'd simply just show up as a straight serial device instead of a USB
>> abstraction of one.
>>     
>
>
> I've encountered some PCMCIA devices that were really just equivalent
> USB devices wrapped in a PCMCIA adapter card.  My UTStarcomm broadband
> modem is like that.
>
> -- JK
>
>   
That's my understanding too.

Jim