Re: [SLE] IBM T42 modem driver 82801DB

On Thursday 29 June 2006 00:13, Bruce Samhaber wrote:
Hi,

Other than the usual google'd sources such as www.linmodems.org,

since you have an AC97 controller, you might be able to use the ALSA modem
driver.

Look in the archives ... no wait... I found my note from 5/31 See below.

You'll need the Smartlink-softmodem pkg and the appropriate alsa driver for
your chipset. (might be the same as below)


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I've been complaining about not being able to find a copy of the slamr.ko
module which is needed to drive the winmodem in my Thinkpad X30.

Never did find one but I found a solution...   much better too.

Having spent two days on this project and googling at least 20 times for
"slamr Suse" and such, I finally came across someone who tried a different
approach, and although in what I read he still had a minor problem, I thought
I would give it a go.

The old solution was to:

modprobe slamr
slmodemd &

where slamr was the module that access the hardware (low-level) and slmodemd
is the piece that provides the high-level functions of the modem.

The solution (at least for me?)

modprobe  snd-intel8x0m
slmodemd  -alsa  -c USA hw:1  &

which accomplishes the same thing and is used in the same fashion.  Works like
a charm.

And I suspect it might work for winmodems from other vendors too if you first
load the appropriate module for that vendors chipset and then run slmodemd.
Can't prove that but it seems reasonable.

In any event, this is a much better solution than the original.



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