On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 18:22 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: > This is beginning to get a real PITA. > > I have managed to get slmodemd to compile and install, and I can get > slamr to insmod. The install even creates /dev/slamr0 and friends, and > I have done cp -a /dev/sl* /etc/udev/devices so that they will be > created on reboot, which they do. The /dev/slamr0 is originally created > by the Makefile as a character device with major 242 minor 0, but there > are bits in the code and the README that make me think it should be > 212/0. Anyway, I have tried both ways without success. When I run > slmodemd it comes back with a message saying the /dev/slamr0 cannot be > found: "no such device or address", but it is definitely present as ls > proves. > > I've even tried compiling slmodemd with alsa support and got it to run > and I can issue commands to the modem as hw:0, but as soon as I try to > dial out with ATDTnnnnnnnnnn it immediately returns NO CARRIER and > ERROR, not seemingly even attempting to dial out. The other problem > with alsa is that if I load slmodemd before kde then I have no sound in > kde, but if I load kde first then slmodemd won't work. > > I've tried googling just about everything I can think of, and there > ain't too much, so I am really getting stuck. Ive jumped in here without knowing the history of this thread,so forgive me if I am repeating already covered ground. I got a laptops modem to work recently by using slmodemd. Basically I installed Ubuntu Dapper,enabled universe and multiverse then just did
sudo apt-get install sl-modem-daemon Then dialed my mobile to make sure it worked. It did, and all the villagers were happy and had a feast in my honour. Im not suggesting you move to Ubuntu (dont know what distro you are using anyway!) but my point is, if you are that desperate to get it going, try using a pretested and packaged version. I dont know where to find these packages for other distro's though, so that is your homework if you prefer not to use Ubuntu. After apt-getting the package, the modem could just simply be configured in System-Administration-networking, and was a piece of cake! Food for thought Tuxta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
