Ross, the linmodem did go fine. before the hard drive died permanently
I had come to the conclusion that ppp in this distribution of Mandrake
is faulty. Testing with wvdial coninually put a corrupted login into
pap-secrets.
Uninstalling ppp and replacing with the package from m8.2 cured this problem but
I never got connected.
I have installed M8.2 on the new hard drive, downloaded driver source code for
the 2..4.18 kernel and compiled it and the modem just went. no probs.
Barry
(sorry about the html, still sorting out problems after the crash & on the new
box)
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Ross Drummond wrote:
> I have assisted someone who has the same modem on a mandrake 10 box.
>
> When I say assisted I mean I attempted to get the beast running, but failed to
> get it to run reliably.
>
> The 'make install' process failed to create a soft link between the character
> device and /dev/modem.
>
> The modem failed to establish a reliable connection the computer owners isp,
> but connected to my isp with no problems.
>
> The best way to use kppp's query modem feature, is by trial and error create
> soft links to /dev/modem from the following;
>
> %dev (c, 212, 0) /dev/slamr0
> %dev (c, 212, 1) /dev/slamr1
> %dev (c, 212, 2) /dev/slamr2
> %dev (c, 212, 3) /dev/slamr3
>
> This above info has been copied from the ./slmodem-2.9.9/scripts/slmodem.spec
> file.
>
> The more adjustments tweaks etc we attempted to get the modem to work the
> deeper we seemed to dig ourselves into the mire.
>
> I have not heard further from the computer owner. I fear that he has given up
> on Linux as too difficult.
>
> Cheers Ross Drummond
>
> On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 10:31, Michael wrote:
> > >bla ... bla.
