Okay, the 2.4.7 should work. Have you installed the kernel source? You need it to compile the drivers.
Joe On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 06:04:53 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The kernel is 2.4.8-26mdk, I installed LM 8.1 3 weeks ago so I've not > changed or upgraded anything yet. By the way, the modem was a CM8738 not a > i810sis, I tried all back from the scratch with this new setting > --with-hal=cm8738 but the results are the same. How exactly did you make > the driver ptserial.o work and ignore those errors? > > At 09:55 p.m. 07/03/2002, you wrote: > > >What kernel are you running? After upgrading my kernel, I could not get > >the 2.4.7 driver to work, but the pctel-0.8.6 did. Are you sure your > >modem is an i810sis? Mine is the pct789. I didn't have to use any of the > >other command line switches except for the --with-hal. The errors I had > >with the 2.4.7 all dealt with unresolved referrences in ptserial. Again, > >I never could resolve them, but did get the later driver to work. > > > >Joe > > -- > reply to a previous mail, > > >what mainboard? > > Elite/SIS > System Mainboard PCCHIPS > Model M598LMR 1.0 > > >mainboard chip? > > SIS530 CPU to PCI Bridge, ISA AGP PCI USB SMBus/i2c > > >pci board chip? > > probably HSP56 CM8738 /PCI-SX, the sound card works ok. > > >new daughter board chip? [forget name for new io slot] > > PCtel/DAA, fb daa2, daa2f PCT303L. > > According to 2 different FAQs (same pctel.o driver different versions), > > "You need an Elite/SiS mainboard with the CM8738 Audio/Modem ASIC and PCtel > Codec/DAA daughterboard. The modem daughterboard has a RJ-11 phone jack to > hook up to a phone line. The modem driver autodetects the correct PCI > vender and device ID to install the correct interrupt handler." > > AFAIK all within the minimum hardware requirements for installing the > driver properly, so it should not matter, unless i'm missing something. > Therefore, making insmod ptserial.o work would be enough to load the modem, > now how do i get rid of those errors? > > Regards > Paul > > >
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