Re: SmartLink Modem Family Woes (Snap Snap)

From: Matthew Saltzman (mjs_at_ces.clemson.edu)
Date: 10/29/05

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    On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Lane Hill wrote:

    > I bought a Creative ModemBlaster USB DE5671 recently, due to me getting
    > troubles with getting a working modem for Fedora 4 (so far I've tried 5
    > different ones, and this is the first external I tried). Of course, Fedora
    > doesn't recognize it offhand, so I did some research. It uses a chipset
    > that's in the same Family as the SmartLink SmartUSB56 (or something or
    > another). The greater news is that SmartLink has a driver available!
    >
    > So, first I tried to make an rpm out of the tar.gz file. According to the
    > terminal, rpm -ta is not a real command, although that's what the readme
    > says to type.

    The readme is rather dated on this point. The command is "rpmbuild -ta
    ..." (and has been for a while now).

    Getting this right won't help with your compilation problem, though.

    You don't say what version of slmodem you are working with.

    >[...]
    >
    > So, I'm completely lost, confused and a bit pissed off due to the fact that
    > all I want to do is use this computer (I'm using my mom's currently) for
    > school, yet I have to live with crappy 56k, and that no modem I've tried
    > worked successfully with Fedora.
    >
    > All I'm asking is this: Can someone pinpoint to me a good RPM to use for
    > this modem, or can someone recommend a good modem (internal or external)
    > that can work flawlessly or near flawlessly with Fedora?

    There is an slmodem-alsa-2.9.9d-0.lvn.1.4 RPM at rpm.livna.org. I haven't
    tried to really make it work, however.

    Almost any external modem or hardware modem will work. There are plenty
    of recommendations in the list archives. 

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 		Matthew Saltzman
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