I hate to reply to myself, but I wanted to clarify a few points.
> > On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, m.nine.six wrote:
> > >you mean the linux driver? linux568.zip ????
> > >if you mean this driver you should have a lot of problems. the first is
> > >that this module is bad coded. checkout http://puma.uio.no/toshiba-40xx/
> > >then the module is compiled for 2.2.12-20 and will not work for kernels
> > >greater then 2.2.14 until you still use the ppp module from 2.2.14. also
> > >until you put the slhc module manualy into the kernel the kernel won't
> > >accept the ppp module. then (on my system) if you power-on the box with
> > >battery power and want to use ltmodem the box will hang until you
> > >disable the "PCI Power Management" in BIOS.
> > >
> > >so you can see i had a lot of trouble with it. but now it works.
The important detail at the URL above is, that the lucent binary has been
patched (directly since we've no code) to stop interfering with registering
normal serial devices while it's loaded. If you really must use an ltmodem
and don't want to lose all other serial use it seems a very good idea to
grab the tweaked version.
> > >also checkout http://www.encypher.net/linux/thinkpad570.html
> > >he will post more details in a few days if not you can mail him.
just says he's using the open sourced software which can dial a phone but
not use PPP.
> > I have that driver, but I heard it was set up for Redhat distros. I also
> > have ltmodem-0.9.8-1.tar. The advice I got from someone else on this list
> > was that it is a loadable module and works fine. I have actually never
> > tried it since I use a pcmcia card for an ISDN router.
>
> Can I have your tar file? I'd like to try it out.
Um, looking at the version number I'm thinking you mean the opensourced one
that can dial the phone, so I think I already have that.
> btw other than that "2.2.12-20" is the kernel that Redhat built for their
> 6.1 distro, it isn't particularly distro specific.
The module (for particularly crappy values of modular) is specific to the
kernel, not the distro.
Their cheap install and uninstall scripts are specific to redhat, in that
they add forcing the module into rc.local (we don't have) and tweak dev nodes
(by deleting and recreating, that's not distro specific, just rude!).
> The description above
> is merely a listing of all the cross-dependencies into other kernel fragments
> that happened because Lucent's coder didn't bother to consider his code as
> a truly seperate unit, so it could be a well behaved module.
* Heather * star@ many places...
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