Robert,
Thanks for the very clean description on dealing with the SuSE environment.
A small clarification however on modem hardware issues.
slmodemd was intially written for Smartlink modem hardware, and there
is stillannounced during its activation of modems: "SmartLink Soft
Modem: version etc." However maintainer Sasha Khapyorsky has since
made slmodemd adaptive to support of a much broader family of modem
hardware, essentially all modems compatible with ALSA modem drivers
(plus a few others). The drivers are relatively simple. The high level
brains of the COMM support is in the slmodemd code base.
This slmodemd support extends to several softmodem chips hosted on
both AC'97 modem controller cards and more recently, HIgh Definition
Audio (HDA) cards, such as your:
-----------------------------------
Class 0403: 8086:27d8 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G
Primary PCI_id 8086:27d8
Subsystem PCI_id 1025:0110
-----------------------------------
The softmodem chip 0x11c13026 is from LSI Inc. (formerly the Agere
Systems spinoff from Lucent Int., with Vendor ID 11c1.) and physically
resides in the 1025:0110 Subsystem, assembled by ALi inc. with Vendor
ID 1025.
The "SmartLink Soft Modem: version etc." announcement is thus
misleading about the modem hardware. I'll write clarification on this
issue into the Smartlink.txt included in SLMODEMD packages. The
Smartlink.txt does have a section on automation alternatives.
Though your modem was bought in the Netherlands, it should be adaptive
to new Country settings by software command. Thus to match phone line
requirements of your current residence, best use:
# slmodemd -c PORTUGAL --alsa hw:0,6
MarvS
On 5/22/07, Robert Best <rwbest@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Please help with winmodem in Acer Aspire 3682WXMi laptop
(bought in the Netherlands) running SuSE Linux 10.2.
I ran scanModem script and following ModemData.txt (attached)
I downloaded and unpacked SLMODEMD-1.0.13.tar.gz and put
slmodemd in /usr/sbin.
Command
slmodemd -c NETHERLANDS --alsa hw:0,6
gives
SmartLink Soft Modem: version 2.9.11 May 5 2007 01:31:04
symbolic link `/dev/ttySL0' -> `/dev/pts/3' created.
modem `hw:0,6' created. TTY is `/dev/pts/3'
Use `/dev/ttySL0' as modem device, Ctrl+C for termination.
But /dev/pts/ has only 0 and 1 Chr Devs and /dev has no ttySL0.
YaST / Network Devices / Modem does not detect any modem.
Robert Best
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