modem Motorola SM56 in Slackware 9.1 kernel 2.4.22
From: Cesar Fuentes (cesar.fuentesm_at_gmail.com)
Date: 04/24/05
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Date: 23 Apr 2005 19:52:24 -0700
SUBJECT: modem Motorola SM56 in Slackware 9.1 kernel 2.4.22
Hi,
I have a computer with an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ processor, mainboard MSI
KT4 and 256 MB ram. I've installed Slackware 9.1 with Linux kernel
2.4.22 and I'm configuring my drivers. I'm still a newbie in this
Linux stuff and I've had some problems with my 'modem' Motorola SM56
Voice Modem. I know that it isn't a real modem, but a 'winmodem' (damn
thing...) so I need help please because I really want to surf the
Internet with my Linux... (please don't say to me that I have to buy
another modem). I've revised other sites where similar problems are
mencioned with possible solutions... I know that it's possible to make
this modem work in other distros and kernels.
I've been researching in the net and I've found some interesting
things:
* In http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fourth/msg01167.html I
found some steps to make this modem work in my Slackware version, and
I did the following:
- Download sm56-06.05.00-1.rh9.i386.rpm from Motorola's official
website.
- Download sm56-gcc3.tar from www.sm56.tk
- Convert the file sm56-06.05.00-1.rh9.i386.rpm to .tgz with the
rpm2tgz utility
bash# rpm2tgz sm56-06.05.00-1.rh9.i386.rpm
- Install the package writing:
bash# kpackage sm56-06.05.00-1.rh9.i386.tgz
and then a lot of files are created in the directories
/usr/share/doc, and in /usr/tmp some files named wrp2.4.*.o
- Then I copy a script from that website (linmodems) to the file
/sm56-gcc3/sminst.sh (in other words I overwrite it)
- And finally I write:
bash# make install
Everything was ok until that moment, but then strange messages
appeared:
[...]
Enter Country Code (If Country Code does not Exists Just Enter): 51
Writing Version.c
gcc: no input files
./sminst.sh: line 28: -c: command not found
ld: cannot open wrp2.4.18.o: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `./sm56.o': No such file or directory
Creating device /dev/sm56...
Pointing /dev/modem to /dev/sm56...
Adding SM56 to /etc/modules.conf...
insmod: sm56: no module by that name found
Installing sm56 man file .....
Self Cleaning .....
Installation of SM56 Internal Modem completed.
[...]
and my modem... doesn't work!! :(
Another thing I tried was copying the files /usr/tmp/wrp2.4.*.o to
directory sm56-gcc3, also overwrite sminst.sh,
and then write 'make install'... but another kind of error messages
appeared:
[...]
Enter Country Code (If Country Code does not Exists Just Enter): 51
Writing Version.c
`./sm56.o' -> `/lib/modules/2.4.22-CAFM-20Abr2005/kernel/drivers/char/sm56.o'
Creating device /dev/sm56...
Pointing /dev/modem to /dev/sm56...
Adding SM56 to /etc/modules.conf...
Using /lib/modules/2.4.22-CAFM-20Abr2005/kernel/drivers/char/sm56
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.22-CAFM-20Abr2005/kernel/drivers/char/sm56
will taint the kernel: no license
See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about
tainted modules
Module sm56 loaded, with warnings
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.22-CAFM-20Abr2005/kernel/drivers/char/sm56.o
Installing sm56 man file .....
Self Cleaning .....
Installation of SM56 Internal Modem completed.
root@PC-01:/pruebas/modem/sm56-gcc3# lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
sm56 1191052 0 (unused)
root@PC-01:/pruebas/modem/sm56-gcc3# minicom
Segmentation fault
root@PC-01:/pruebas/modem/sm56-gcc3# lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
sm56 1191052 1
[...]
and it doesn't work either... when i run 'minicom' for testing, it
appears an error message: 'Segmentation fault.'
Please help me!!! I need to know what packages I have to download, and
if you could tell me what steps I have to follow, that's even
better...
Some technical information from Windows:
Motorola SM56 Voice Modem
Location: Slot PCI 3 (Bus PCI 0, device 7, function 0)
115200 bps
Memory addresses: DFDFFF00 - DFDFFFFF
IRQ 18
I'm counting on you guys,
Cesar Fuentes M.
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