I can see where many would be confused.
The USB to the cell phone does not provide a signal path from the modem to the cell phone. It's to do other things depending on what they offer.
Seek another solution.
Bob
For limited travel, I would like to connect to the internet with the dial up modem in my laptop using my cell phone, I have a USB cable that came with drivers to connect the two but I keep getting errors that claim the USB device is not recognized when I plug the phone in. Even if it were recognized, cell phones don't have dial tones so how would I get the modem to dial out?

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