Dial-Up / softmodem questions.

Hi All,

I bought a USB interfaced Dial-Up modem in the hope I could use it to
send Faxes (I had need to recently) and to have emergency internet
access.

Plug the thing into XP/Vista/W7 (and XPPro in a VM) , 'Found new
hardware, ready' and the modem diags can interrogate it ok. I can also
talk to it via Hyperterminal (also in Vista / W7 using HT from XP) and
setup a dial-up internet connection (tested ok).

The box says it's a 'Pluscom 56k V.92 USB2.0 Fax Modem and Mint
reports it as:

lsusb: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 047e:2892 Agere Systems, Inc. (Lucent)
Systems Soft Modem.

Now I know it's a softmodem but it does say it's supported by Linux on
the box and there is a Linux folder on the CD so is that possible?

If so, is there a simple GUI terminal that should talk to it please as
the nearest I've got is CuteCom and that didn't seem to (but then I
don't really know what I'm doing with all this).

Cheers, T i m

On 02-12-10 21:54, T i m wrote:

Hi All,

I bought a USB interfaced Dial-Up modem in the hope I could use it to
send Faxes (I had need to recently) and to have emergency internet
access.

Plug the thing into XP/Vista/W7 (and XPPro in a VM) , 'Found new
hardware, ready' and the modem diags can interrogate it ok. I can also
talk to it via Hyperterminal (also in Vista / W7 using HT from XP) and
setup a dial-up internet connection (tested ok).

The box says it's a 'Pluscom 56k V.92 USB2.0 Fax Modem and Mint reports
it as:

lsusb: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 047e:2892 Agere Systems, Inc. (Lucent)
Systems Soft Modem.

Now I know it's a softmodem but it does say it's supported by Linux on
the box and there is a Linux folder on the CD so is that possible?

Lucent was many years ago one of the first softmodem supported with a
Linux driver called ltmodems so yes this is possible.

If so, is there a simple GUI terminal that should talk to it please as
the nearest I've got is CuteCom and that didn't seem to (but then I
don't really know what I'm doing with all this).

You'd probably start by installing the martian-modem and google will no
doubt help you set it up.
Last time I did you would make a file called /etc/wvdail.conf and put
some script in it, the examples are in the Martian Script folder. A GUI
for it would be gnome-ppp.
But it's all long ago so YMMV.

Cheers, T i m

Browse http://linmodems.technion.ac.il and download scanModem.gz .
Within a Linux partition
gunzip scanModem.gz
To make it executable:
chmod +x scanModem
Run diagnositics with:
./scanModem
Only the ouput ModemData.txt should be sent to

Browse http://linmodems.technion.ac.il and download scanModem.gz .
Within a Linux partition
gunzip scanModem.gz
To make it executable:
chmod +x scanModem
Run diagnositics with:
./scanModem
Only the ouput ModemData.txt should be sent to

Now I know it's a softmodem but it does say it's supported by Linux on
the box and there is a Linux folder on the CD so is that possible?