A Modem and Some Help

[Dark Ninja]

Okay, now, I've read everything I've been told to read. Experimented around a bit, and my Winmodem is still not working.

Here's what I have:
Mandrake 8.0, 2.4.3 kernel
Lucent LT Winmodem
5.99b Driver

Now, I am wondering...do I need to recompile in order to use the driver? Heck, do I even have the correct driver?

Any help would be appreciated. I have read the Modem-HOWTO's, and a ton of other documentation, but I must be doing something very wrong. Any help anybody could give to get me online would be very appreciated.

Dark Ninja

[EyesWideOpen]

This post isn't so much to help you get your modem working as it is to figure out what you've already done to attempt to get it to work (which may help inderectly). I have a Lucent Wildwire (or something like that) modem and I couldn't get it to work with Red Hat at home (first tried with 5.0) so I'd be interested to know where you got the driver and what kind of documentation you've been reading.

[ 14 June 2001: Message edited by: EyesWideOpen ]

[slapNUT]

If you have the tarball unpacked go into the ltmodem directory and read the 1ST-READ file. It has everything you need to install the drivers. Also has some info on chip-sets which will not work which might be your problem.

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You have the latest driver 5.99.
You only need kernel-header installed, you dont need to recompile.

[ 14 June 2001: Message edited by: slapNUT ]

[Dark Ninja]

Kernel header? Would that be the ltmodem.o file? Or...what? (This is my first time really messing with hardware like this, so I'm a newbie in this respect.)


Dark Ninja

[Dark Ninja]

Sorry...forgot to reply to EyesWideOpen.

Well, I've been reading the Linux HOW-TO's from the Linux Documentation Project. I also went to www.mandrakeuser.org (http://www.mandrakeuser.org) and read up on the Winmodem install.

Can't remember where I got the 5.99b file. Found it while searching for information. Use Google - ton of information there.


Dark Ninja

[slapNUT]

Open up your favorite rpm package tool kpackage or rpmdrake. Look in the Development group for Kernel, and you should have a listing for kernel-headers if you have that installed. If you don't then look on your cd's. Drake 7.2 had them on cd #2.

Once you get that done like I said the 1ST-READ file has a step-by-step process for getting the modules installed and setting you up so they automatically install at boot-up.