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OK, I've tried anything I can think of and I can't seem to figure this out. I'm new to linux (just installed it today) and need a little help setting it up correctly.
I have Linux Mandrake 2.4.3 installed on a seperate partition, it boots up fine, everything loads ok, but I have one problem: my modems don't work. I have 2 modems, and Linux was only able to detect one of them. The one it detected was the Lucent WinModem, and the one it didn't detect was my Creative Labs Modem Blaster.
I looked on the net and found an RPM file that had drivers for my lucent winmodem.
I went to my floppy disk in Mandrake and double-clicked and installed the RPM file, but I have no idea why it still doesn't work. Is there something more I need to do?
My last thoughts are that possibly I have not set the correct IRQ or COM port for my modem, but I don't know how to do that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Malakin
08-28-2001, 04:20 AM
Did you read the instructions that came with the rpm if there were any? maybe giving us a link to it might allow someone to take a look at it and help.
refer to it as mandrake 8, you'll just confuse some people by calling it by the kernel version :)
OK, when I installed Mandrake 8 :) I was told by the install program to go to www.linmodems.org (http://www.linmodems.org/) to get third party software to allow some of my hardware to function correctly. The hardware it was referring to was my Lucent Winmodem.
Eventually, I ended up here (http://www.heby.de/ltmodem) and downloaded the described drivers for Linux-Mandrake from here (http://www.sfu.ca/~cth/ltmodem/mandrake/).
The exact driver that I downloaded, as per the kernel version, was ltmodem-kv_2.4.3_20mdk-5.99b-1.i586.rpm. I can't seem to find any documentation beyond "install this and it will work"
Like I said before, I went to my mounted directory in linux (/mnt/floppy) and simply double-clicked the RPM file and Mandrake automatically installed it. Yet I have no idea what else I might need to do.
Thanks in advance if anyone can help me here.
Malakin
08-30-2001, 05:27 AM
When you get an rpm and you're not sure what it came with or where the documentation is you can either open up the package manager, search for the rpm and it will list all the files it installed or from a command line you can just type this "rpm -qpl ltmodem*rpm" and it spits out where all the files where placed. In this instance the docs were put in "/usr/share/doc/ltmodem-kv_2.4.3_20mdk-5.99b/"
browse through that and hopefully you'll find your answer, if you have more troubles post back. I wish I could be of more help but I haven't used a modem in ages and never owned a software based one.
Or if you don't feel like reading the docs you could try typing both "modprobe lt_modem" and "modprobe lt_serial" and see what happens, maybe it will work.
Alright, it took forever but I finally did it. This is what I had to do:
All the readmes said to set the "Is OS a PNP OS" setting in your BIOS to "No" or something like that and that is what it was set at the whole time. As soon as I changed it, the lt_modem and lt_serial modules loaded correctly. Finally, all I had to do was symbolically link the newly created modem to the /dev/modem directory. I had to read through the syslog to find out the name of the modem, but I did find it.
Apparently, before I made the change in the BIOS, lspci was reporting an IRQ of 0 for my modem, and when I changed the BIOS setting it went to IRQ 5 by itself, after which it started working properly. I only have one more question.
I want the modules to load up automatically on boot, how do I do that?