On Wednesday 12 January 2005 09:23, Hartmut Meyer wrote:
Questions regarding the consumer product (SUSE Linux Professional) which are covered by the scope of the "free" service
There's the 'rub,' but at least Novell has the decency to note on the box that the free support is limited to www.novell.com/usersupport. I was disappointed to see that the free support didn't cover my Lucent winmodem (for which there is a driver in SuSE professional), but I ended up getting support in a passing conversation with a fellow geek. I recently switched to SuSE from Red Hat, having been a Red Hat user since I put version 7.1 on a router a few years back. But since switching I've found that with each new kernel patch the ltmodem driver seems to be getting more, not less, difficult to implement. The latest ltmodem driver (the one which came with the boxed 9.2-Professional) had a lot of documentation, but little seemed to apply. All I ended up having to do is create a file called modem in /etc/modprobe.d/ with the following information: alias char-major-62 ltserial alias /dev/tts/LT0 ltserial alias /dev/modem ltserial NOTE: This is slightly different that the 1ST-READ file which says to use lt_serial as opposed to ltserial. The 1ST-READ says to put it in /etc/modules.conf which doesn't seem to do anything with the 2.6 kernel - docs need to be adjusted for this package to reflect the change with the new kernel. Hope this helps someone else. Cheers, Charles p.s. I guessed that the file should be called modem, it just made sense to me since there was a file called tv and a file called sound already in the directory. I knew about ltserial vs lt_serial from trying modprobe ltserial instead of modprobe lt_serial (which didn't work). -- Charles McColm, charm@porchlight.ca http://tuxspot.blogspot.com/