On Tuesday 22 August 2006 17:31, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Tuesday 22 August 2006 16:11, Alan wrote: > > Been reading the emails with interest even tho much is way above me head > > yet. > > I have downloaded two modem files....not yet tried to do anything with > > them tho, > > they are ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386_8.31a11_i386.deb > > also ltmodem-2.6-alk-8tar.bz2 > > not sure which is likely to be the later one. > > The latter. > > > I have now also downloaded Wvdial-1.56.tar.gz (which I believe is the > > latest) and as suggested > > on the sire I downloaded Wvstreams-4.22.tar.gz (I am assuming that this > > is used in > > conjunction with the building and installing of Wvdial. > > I'm not going to try to install wvdial until I feel I have exhausted my > efforts to get you connected via kppp > > > I also c alled into the Library this afternoon and picked up a couple of > > books > > one being Linux in Easy Steps by Mike McGrath, however as I start to > > read it appears to be about Suse and I dont know if it is likely to be > > applicable with Mepis. > > The other is Linux Quick Fix Notebook by Peter Harrison.... not sure if > > there is a lot that will help my knowledge in that as initially looking > > i think it may deal mostly with server type installations. > > > > If any one knows them and would care to comment on their value to my > > understanding I would appreciate it thanks. > > imho, it's not a very good investment to buy paper books because not only > are they horrendously expensive, but the information about specific > distributions therein is usually out of date before they hit the printing > press, let alone the market.
Hi if it is of any help here is what I did to install a Ltmodem in Mandrake10.1 which worked flawlessly. copy the Ltmodem *.ko files to /lib/modules/uname-r/other e.g. cp -v *.ko /lib/modules/uname-r/other then mknod --mode=0640 /dev/ttyLT0 c 62 64 depmod -a modprobe ltserial ln -s /dev/ttyLT0 /dev/modem add to /etc/modprobe.conf install winmodem /sbin/modprobe ltserial alias /dev/modem ltserial alias char-major-62 ltserial alias /dev/tty/LT0 ltserial add this to modprobe.preload winmodem if Mepis uses udev then the link will be removed at each boot so open the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local and find the lines "This will overwrite /etc/issue at every boot" Just before these lines add ln -s /dev/ttyLT0 /dev/modem This may be some help but I don't know Mepis. regards Paul
