External modem

[Man-wai Chang]

> Eventually discovered the US Robotics USR5637. It is a USB modem with an
> actual built-in controller. Advertised to work on Linux and indeed I
> plugged it into my Ubuntu server and it was immediately installed as
> /dev/ttyACM0. Zero effort. And seems to work great.
> Got mine from eBay for $33 NIB.

I have one in my Ubuntu server as well!

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