Re: smartlink and modem....

Le Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:55:23 +1100, cMz a écrit :

> François Patte wrote:
>> Bonjour,
>>
>> Did someone succeed to have a "smartlink modem" working?
>>
>
> [snip]
>
> Been using it on my Compaq nx9110 laptop since Mandrakelinux 10.1.
> Compiled it every time without problems, until Mandriva 2006. Btw,
> current driver at SmartLink site <http://www.smlink.com/> is the
> slmodem-2.9.10.tar file.
>
> Anyway, this driver compiled with some errors in gcc 4 in my Mandriva
> 2006, which led to 'No dial tone' errors. After some googling found
> this site <http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/>, with
> a driver pre-compiled in gcc 4. File is
> 'slmodemd-2.9.11_20051009_gcc4.tar.gz', with date/time stamp of
> '30-Oct-2005 16:09'.
>
> After loading 'snd-atiixp-modem' module, I run it with
> '#./slmodemd --country=AUSTRALIA --alsa' command. I use Kppp for dialing.
>
> Just noticed on the 'linmodems' site they have the latest driver
> 'slmodem-2.9.11-20051101.tar.gz', with the date/time stamp of
> '07-Jan-2006 20:30'. Included 'Changes' file mentions 'gcc 4 build
> support'. Might try to compile it later on.
>
> Hope this helps. Good luck.

Thanks. This version seems to work better than others.

There is something that I cannot solve (and do not understand): it is
impossible to have service slmodemd started at boot time (using a script
in /etc/init.d (I use fedora C4)). This always fails (".... cannot use
modem:1...."; is the alleged reason). But, onc the system is up, if I log
in as root and use the command:

service slmodemd start (so, it is the same script!)

This works and the smartlink is launched!!! I do not understand why!

--
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université René Descartes
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte

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