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Compile USB Serial Modem Using option.c (Ubuntu on Beagleboard xM)

In ARM Linux, General Linux, Ubuntu on 9 January 2012 with 2 comments 4155 views

Despite possibility to use (1) $ modprobe -v usbserial vendor=0x05c6 product=0×0015 or (2) usb-modeswitch, (3) Matthias Urlichs initially wrote option.c driver as a way to insert USB modem as kernel module. This driver exists because the “normal” serial driver doesn’t work too well with GSM modems. Issues: – data loss — one single Receive URB [...]