Lucent Winmodem and Mdk 8.1

[WhoaDude]

No, please! Don't run away! :)

I have both a PCI winmodem (Turbocomm, Lucent Mars) and an ISA winmodem (GVC, Lucent Luna) and I can't get either of them to work in Mandrake 8.1. :(

When I had 7.1 installed I got the driver RPM from heby.de and installed it and it worked without a glitch, but now I'm using (trying to anyway) 8.1 and it won't work. First I installed the driver for my kernel version just like in 7.1 but it didn't work, then I tried installing the kernel headers and kernel sources to compile the regular driver, no problems with the install but the modem doesn't work. The PPP dialer is looking for dev/modem which doesn't exist (there's an lt_modem.o though).

I know this isn't very clear, but why isn't there a dev/modem ? I'm going to set "PnP OS Installed" to "No" in the BIOS, but I don't think that's the problem because my PCI modem won't work either.

Ask what you need to know and maybe you can get an idea of what I've got here.

(BTW, I'm using the ISA modem because it's faster then the PCI one, it's older and not as cheap)

[ScRapZ_1]

Egh, winmodems :rolleyes:

...anyway, if theres no /dev/modem, then lets try making one ourselves. First, you need to find out which com port it lives on. Being an internal one, its either com3 or com5 (the "most common" ones) but make sure before hand. Then, create a symlink called /dev/modem that points to the correct com port. (Remember, com ports in Linux are called tty ports. So com1 is ttyS0, com2 is ttyS1, com3 is ttyS2, com4 is ttyS3, com5 is ttyS4, and so on.) Do this by ln -s /dev/ttyS4 /dev/modem (changing ttyS4 to whatever is should be.) Then go on about setting up your modem. If you still have troubles, come back and ask!

TTFN,
ScRapZ_1 :p

[WhoaDude]

Ok, thanks. I can select any of the COM ports from 0-? in KPPP but I haven't tried anything higher then 0 or 1. Maybe if I just try every port I'll find the one it's on.

Also, in winders the modem is on COM1 because all my mobo COM ports are disabled.

I'll go try this stuff and see if it works, if not I'll be back! :(

[danrees]

http://www.dwrees.co.uk/lucent_install.shtml (mine :))

The LT modem is probably at /dev/ttyLT0, and so you need:

ln -s /dev/ttyLT0 /dev/modem

You can then choose /dev/modem in kppp - see http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/KPPP

Let me know if you have any other problems. :cool:

[ 01 April 2002: Message edited by: danrees ]

[slapNUT]

Put this line in /etc/modules
lt_serial

Put this in /etc/modules.conf
alias char-major-62 lt_serial
alias /dev/ttsLT0 lt_serial
alias /dev/modem lt_serial

Now when you type /sbin/lsmod you should see this:
lt_serial 20272 3 (autoclean)
lt_modem 314624 0 (autoclean) [lt_serial]


When you type ls -l /dev/modem you should see this
/dev/modem -> /dev/ttsLT0

If you dont see that link then do this:

ln -s /dev/ttsLT0 /dev/modem

If you did the ./ltinst2 from the driver directory you should have the modules lt_serial.o and lt_modem.o in /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/char

If all the above has been met then the modem should work, just set it to /dev/modem

[ 01 April 2002: Message edited by: slapNUT ]