If your internet has begun to act up or not seem to work as well as it once did, you will naturally be looking for a cause. Before you begin browsing the latest Spectrum compatible modems, you need to ask yourself: when was the last time that you updated your modem’s drivers?
Modem drivers are essential in allowing the operatingsystem to work properly and, just as technology continually changes, you needto be sure that your modem’s drivers are keeping up with the times. Here’s howyou can update your modem drivers in Windows 10.
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Whatis a Driver?
Let’s take a quick look at what a modem driver is. Amodem works by gathering data from your system and transmitting the data overtelephone lines, fiber optic cables, or cable lines in order to deliver thedata to another modem.
The driver itself is a piece of code that tells thedata transfer to happen. The information is coded in between modems and unencryptedat the receiving modem.
WhyUpdate Drivers?
Drivers need to be kept updated because of how much and how quickly technology changes. Drivers can include updates that correct any mishaps in code previously written, as well as helping keep your network safe from any new threats that could be headed your way. Updating your driver allows it to take in new information about any threats or malware that could be headed your way.
Updatingyour Modem Driver
In order to update your modem driver in Windows 10, tomake sure that is using the latest technology, you need to do the following:
Alternatively, if you want to be certain that yourmodem has received all of its driver updates, you can go to the modem’s websiteand see what the latest update was and whether you already have it. You shouldalso reboot the computer in order to make sure the new driver has succeeded.
Troubleshooting
Once in a while, a modem driver might not be workingwell itself. If you downloaded a new driver, recently updated your operatingsystem, or if your driver isn’t working with new software provided by your ISP,then you might need to review your modem driver.
In the case that you just downloaded a new driver andit is not working correctly, the driver might have been corrupted or damagedduring the download, but it could also be an indication of malware on yourcomputer. In any of these cases, the safest course of action is to re-installthe modem driver. You can do that by following the steps that we listed outabove.
When all else fails, it is time to contact themanufacturer for your modem and do some troubleshooting with their customer serviceas well. They should be able to walk through it with you and figure out what isreally going on.
Command to display usb_modeswitch
manual in Linux: $ man 1 usb_modeswitch
usb_modeswitch - control the mode of 'multi-state' USB devices
usb_modeswitch [-heWQDIvpVPmM23rwKdHSOBGTNALnsRiuagft] [-c filename]
Several new USB devices have their proprietary Windows drivers onboard,most of them WWAN and WLAN dongles. When plugged in for the first time,they act like a flash storage and start installing the Windows driver fromthere. If the driver is installed, it makes the storage device disappearand a new device, mainly composite (e.g. with modem ports), shows up.
On Linux, in most cases the drivers are available as kernel modules,such as 'usbserial' or 'option'. However, the device initially binds to'usb-storage' by default. usb_modeswitch can then send a provided bulkmessage (most likely a mass storage command) to the device; this messagehas to be determined by analyzing the actions of the Windows driver.
In some cases, USB control commands are used for switching. These cases arehandled by custom functions, and no bulk message needs to be provided.
Usually, the program is distributed with a set of configurations for manyknown devices, which allows a fully automatic handling of a device uponinsertion, made possible by combining usb_modeswitch with the wrapper scriptusb_modeswitch_dispatcher which is launched by the udev daemon. Thisrequires a Linux-flavoured system though.
Note that usb_modeswitch itself has no specific Linux dependencies.
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax,with long options starting with two dashes ('--'). A summary ofoptions is included below.
This manual page was originally written by Didier Raboud (didier [at] raboud.com) forthe Debian system. Additions made by Josua Dietze. Permission isgranted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document underthe terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or anylater version published by the Free Software Foundation.
The complete text of the current GNU General PublicLicense can be found in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt