Hello Mark, > I've got a ThinkPad i 1480 and I had a little bit of trouble getting the > binary kernel module working for the Lucent winmodem that's avaiable on > linmodems.org. It appears that it was compiled for the kernel in RedHat 6.1 > (2.2.12-20). What I'm wondering is if I should use the kernel packages for > Potato (2.2.13) or get the source for 2.2.12, or even switch to RedHat if I > want to get the modem working.
The Lucent modem in my Toshiba Satellite 2100CDS is working using the binary-only driver you mention. I am running slink with a 2.2.13 kernel. The last line of the install script tries to append to the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local but this file does not exist in debian. I commented this line, run the script, tried minicom and it worked. So the module is not loaded automatically during boot (which is a good thing because it has more then 500Kb!) and I have to insert it manually using "insmod -f ltmodem". My /var/log/syslog says: kernel: Lucent PCI Modem driver version 4.27.5.65 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled kernel: ttyS14 at 0x1c00 (irq = 3) is a Lucent There are some problems that I notice. After inserting the module I start getting lots of "bug: kernel timer added twice at c206fd19" messages. Sometimes the computer seems to freeze for a second or two. I also had twice a kernel oops message and had to press the reset button. This is what you get from binary-only modules. :( Fortunatly I won't be needing the modem much because most of the time I will be connected to an ethernet. Cheers. -- Ruben Leote Mendes - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
