On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 17:06 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > perhaps these googling-obvious pages will help: > > > > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=93852&highlight=ltmodem > > > > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=198730&highlight=ltmodem > > > > and others from searching that forum... > Mana from heaven. Thanks a million.
More information: ubuntu, and presumably mepis given the shared heritage, have ltmodem and ltserial (the 2 kernel modules required) in the package linux-restricted-modules that matches your kernel version. All kernels and associated extra modules files like this come precompiled for various architectures - 386, 686, powerpc, amd64-generic etc etc. Pretty clearly Alan has these modules installed as the modem has been detected. The source file for linux-restricted-modules is 93M and contains the source to a number of restricted modules including nvidia, madwifi, ati and several others including ltmodem, which is the case in point. There is also a patch file but it doesn't impact on ltmodem. Anyway, the version of ltmodem in the ubuntu source file seems to be 8.26-alk-8 (in lt_modem.c there appears: static char *modem_version = "8.26-alk-8"; So it looks like exactly the version that is recommended in the second of the two howtos listed above. In other words, you are unlikely to end up with anything different by compiling the modules again, unless you choose a different source version. The first howto recommends ltmodem-2.6-alk-7b1, which seems a step backwards (and it is a lot earlier in time). 8.26-alk-8 also appears to be the latest here: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/kernel-2.6/ My conclusion is that if Alan has the version provided by ubuntu and adopted by mepis then he has the latest driver, and whats more its 99.9% sure that it will have been correctly compiled, ie with exactly the same version of gcc that was used for his kernel. By all means compile the same damned thing again, but I cannot see what will change. >
