List, I'm again posting back to myself! This time it's to report back my success to those who responded and/or if anyone looks here for a solution to a similar problem in the future. My Ali SmartLink WinModem is now working! My openSuse distro decided during installation that my WinModem needed an alsa driver. The MB sound module is snd-intel8x0. I tried using the snd-intel8x0m modem driver. It almost works, but the userspace SmartLink daemon “connects” to the sound card rather than to the modem. The quick story is that my modem needed the slamr module discontinued by openSuse around V-10. I have openSuse 11.0. OpenSuse 11.0 was in erro expecting to use an ALSA modem driver. To get connected, I joined the following lists: www.linmodems.org and sister link http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/t. either link has a small modem probe application for download. The probe saves relevant modem and system data into a text file. A list guru reviewed my probe data and gave me links to a pair of tarballs with the instructions to build them, install them and the module insertion sequence. The tarballs were ungrab-winmodem and slamr. My distro provides a SmartLink rpm that provides separate script and binary files named slmodemd. Slamr was the driver slmodemd needed. The slamr tarball installs its own slmodemd. Before I built the tarballs, I erased the SmartLink rpm. After the tarball builds and installs, modprobe ungrab-winmodem, then modprobe slamr, slmodemd invocation “slmodemd -c USA /dev/slamr0” started the modem working with kinternet. To load ungrab-winmodem and slamr automatically, I put ungrab-winmodem into /etc/sysconfig/kernel on a line MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="ungrab-winmodemr". Next I reinstalled the SmartLink rpm smartlink-softmodem-2.9.10-203.1.i586.rpm. The rpm reload overwrote the slmodemd provided by the slamr tarball, and installs slmodemd script at /etc/init.d. The script loads slamr, then invokes slmodemd options passed as environment variables. With openSuse Yast2 sets the slmodemd environment variables -c USA and slamr0. Thanks list for your patience and you time! Frank K.
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From : FrankK[mailto:frankk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent : 12/21/2008 2:24:16 PM
To : markc@xxxxxxxxx; alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc :
Subject : RE: Re: In a jam!
Thanks to both "Marks" that replied to my post.
I'm currently visiting in northern Wisconsin, so I've been trying to post
using webmail. Thanks for your responses so I know my post(s) worked.
DSL is available to maybe half of the northern Wisconsin area, but my Oregon
home will be dial-up for at least the rest of this decade!
The snd-intel8x0m modem driver seems so close to working for me, I have to
keep fooling with the 8x0 loading sequence and aliasing.
I'll take that on myself from here! Frank K
------- Original Message -------
>From : Mark Constable[ mailto:markc@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent : 12/20/2008 2:10:11 PM
To : alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc :
Subject : RE: Re: [Alsa-user] In a jam!
On 2008-12-21, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hello again list! I think my posts are getting to the list, but
> > apparently not attracting favorable attention. Who wants to discuss
> > modems on a alsa site?
> ...
> It doesn't offend but unfortunately I haven't ever seen these modem
> devices discussed on this list.
I had an Intel based laptop from Dell that has a working softmodem
and audio... some relevant answers could be here...
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Wiki_Main_Page
--markc
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