On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > That is bad. Open Solaris needs to work both with Reliance and Tata > Indicom, co-develop a driver and make it work on Solaris. This is so > fundamental. > > Shiva. >
I did some RTFM on this last night. Under *nix, logically you need two things: a) Kernel support for the USB modem device b) Some sort of "dialing" mechanism The latter should not be a major issue. 'pppd' is installed in 2008.5 by default, along with chat. We would have to work out a workable chat script by trial and error. In any case, if stuck, wvdial may have to be compiled. The real issue is the kernel device support. It is not a single driver, unfortunately. To my understanding, in linux, you need support for at least the following modules, either built static or pulled up as a module: a) PPP (point-to-point protocol)) b) PPP_ASYNC (PPP support for async serial ports) c) USB_SUPPORT d) USB_ACM (Modem (CDC ACM) support) e) PPP_DEFLATE f) PPP_BSDCOMP g) Any more ? [ The last two (e and f) probably can be compromised with ] Which of the above is not available with the OpenSolaris Kernel ? The problem is listing out what all modules are compiled/ loaded with the default kernel on my 2008.5 box. What is the equivalent of "lsmod" of linux ? Or, what is the equivalent of "insmod" ? (This is where old habits create problems, and you get stuck for silly little things). Bish
