Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.
>
> And I suspect it might work for winmodems from other vendors too if you first 
> load the appropriate module for that vendors chipset and then run slmodemd.
> Can't prove that but it seems reasonable.
>
> In any event, this is a much better solution than the original.

Could you write an article for the opensuse wiki, perhaps under SDB?

> But I still think Novell pulled the plug too soon on a lot of people with 
> similar or other problems with non-gpl code and with no notification of what 
> was going to be happening.
>
> I've spent at least 5 full days shooting problems with 10.1.  No one can tell 
> me that it is a super, easy thing to install.  It's been a lot of dog-work 
> and sleuthing from someone who has 45 years of computing experience and it 
> took far too much work to accomplish.

Not good.  What else hit you?

> So there.....      BLEAH!!!!

Andreas
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