Here's a copy of the article from http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=13773
HW-03: Lucent Winmodem drivers mdk10 Kernel 2.6
Some of you may use a Lucent Winmodem like I do with Mandrake. When I used Mandrake 9.2 I would just grab an RPM for Kernel 2.4 http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/heby/ltmodem/dists/mandrake/8.26a9/ or http://www.sfu.ca/~cth/ltmodem/dists/mandrake/8.26a9/ and they installed with ease.
However, when I installed Mandrake 10 Official with Kernel 2.6.3.7mdk, I couldn't find any RPMs that worked with a 2.6 kernel! I finally found http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/resources.html page which had source I could use http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/kernel-2.6/. But as a newbie, how could I do it? I had compiled programs from source before, but this wasn't working! I would receive an error when I tried to compile. So I asked for help and received some excellent advice which I followed and found to work without problems! Hooray! Thanks to Tormented's post in http://linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=175967 on linuxquestions.org (from which I will now quote), here are the step by step instructions:
Downloading
Get http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/kernel-2.6/ltmodem-2.6-alk-2.tar.gz before you begin, it's what you'll compile using the instructions below. I copied it into /root/ and it compiled correctly, otherwise in other directories it gave an error. Of course you need to extract the contents of the file before you begin.
1. Make sure you have the kernel-source rpm installed.
2. Edit the modem driver's Makefile and change:
KERNEL_DIR := /usr/src/linux-2.6/
to
KERNEL_DIR := /usr/src/linux/
3. Become root and type make.
4. Type the following commands:
mkdir /lib/modules/`uname -r`/other cp -v *.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/other mknod --mode=0640 /dev/ttyLT0 b 62 64 depmod -a modprobe ltserial ln -vs /dev/ttySLT0 /dev/modem
5. Add these lines to /etc/modprobe.conf
install winmodem /sbin/modprobe ltserial alias /dev/modem ltserial alias char-major-62 ltserial alias /dev/tts/LT0 ltserial[/color]
6. Add this to the end of /etc/modprobe.preload
winmodem
After all the above I rebooted my system (even though I may not have needed to, I did it anyway) and installed KPPP. When I ran KPPP my modem was found without any problems. I hope this helps some of you Lucent Winmodem users who may be having trouble getting yours to work with Mdk10 and Kernel 2.6.
-- Paul Wilkins
