Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> Damn...   gotta find something else to bitch about.
> 
> I've been complaining about not being able to find a copy of the slamr.ko 
> module which is needed to drive the winmodem in my Thinkpad X30.
> 
> Never did find one but I found a solution...   much better too.
> 
> Having spent two days on this project and googling at least 20 times for 
> "slamr Suse" and such, I finally came across someone who tried a different 
> approach, and although in what I read he still had a minor problem, I thought 
> I would give it a go.
> 
> The old solution was to:
> 
> modprobe slamr
> slmodemd &
> 
> where slamr was the module that access the hardware (low-level) and slmodemd 
> is the piece that provides the high-level functions of the modem.
> 
> The solution (at least for me?)
> 
> modprobe  snd-intel8x0m
> slmodemd  -alsa  -c USA hw:1  &
> 
> which accomplishes the same thing and is used in the same fashion.  Works like 
> a charm.

Hi Bruce.

I seem to be having problems finding that slmodemd.  I can't find it on
the 10.1 download CD set nor on the repository.  There is also reference
to ftp.smlink.com, but that currently doesn't work.  Can you point me to
where I can find it?  Or failing that, email it to me?

tnx jk