Re: Problems with a modems under linux

On 23 Oct 2006 20:39:16 -0700, kawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx staggered
into the Black Sun and said:
Dances With Crows wrote:
I didn't know they had different versions for gcc 3 and gcc 4. Oh
well, get that symlink going and you should have no problems with
pppd or whatever. HTH,
Ok. It's almost there but not quite. Do I use the
PACKAGEDIR/scripts/debian/slmodemd script or do I use the
PACKAGEDIR/slmodemd file?

If your distro has a package for slmodem, use that. Otherwise, use the
debian/slmodemd script.

The latter doesn't work, as I suspect it's because it's a 32-bit ELF
executable and I'm running a 64-bit kernel. Is there any way to get
around this?

Er... what? 32-bit junk should work properly on amd64 as long as all
the emulation stuff is installed. Gentoo, at least, sets it up such
that there's /lib32 and /lib64 , and similar dirs in /usr. The default
amd64 Gentoo install CD sets this up so that it works out of the box.
YDistroMV, RitsFineM for details. Sorry, can't be more specific, the
Debian boxes at work are all running on 32-bit hardware.

kppp doesn't recognise that there's a modem at /dev/ttySL0.

I see from the comments in the init script that this gets created when
slmodemd starts. The "real" device may actually be named /dev/slamr0 ,
but I don't think you point pppd at that device.

Also, the only tar.gz file that works is
slmodemd-2.9.11_20051009_gcc3.tar.gz. Even then I have to use
scripts/debian/slmodemd.

Er, yeah. If you're trying to use weird hardware (most laptops) with
outdated software (Debian stable), you will usually find interesting
problems. Oh well, HTH,

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