On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:29:18 +0100 PatrickM <mop48836@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:

Sean Rima wrote:

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Hi Folks

I have an internal modem in my laptop which I want to use as a fallback link when my main inet link goes down, I am on a sat feed due to my location. lspci id's it as : Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)

I have done searchs on google but see nothing that helps

Sean

Hi Sean,

may be you could try the following.

1. Using smart (i don't see it with yast), with the add-on channel installed, or by other means, fetch a package called "smartlink-softmodem-kmp-X", where X stands for "default", "smp" or "bigsmp". If you have only once processor, try the first. The actual version is 2.9.10

2. Once installed, try this, as root:

modprobe snd-intel8x0m slmodemd -alsa -c COUNTRY hw:1 &

where COUNTRY is your country (duh..) You can get the exact spelling with this command: /usr/sbin/slmodemd --countrylist

(and the country name is in CAPS)

You should have your modem working OK, and i thank BTW the kind person who gave this hint first in this list, as this works fine for me too :-)

These commands are typed as root, and only as root i can kppp correctly.

Still, there is this resource as another possible step:

http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/

Good luck, and please tell if it worked :-)

Tried that but it seems to hold the line open, ie no dialtone, I have to unplug the modem before the phone will play a bit more Sean -- Strange Things happen under the midnight sun When men and dogs go hunting for gold

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:26:43 -0400 Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@bmarsh.com> wrote:

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 18:25, Sean Rima wrote:

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Hi Folks

I have an internal modem in my laptop which I want to use as a fallback link when my main inet link goes down, I am on a sat feed due to my location. lspci id's it as : Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)

I have done searchs on google but see nothing that helps

Sean

I think the below might help....... At least get you in the general direction.

====================================================================== 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.

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.

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.

I am going to play a bit more with it and see where I get Sean -- Strange Things happen under the midnight sun When men and dogs go hunting for gold