- Drafter - wrote:
Absolutelu new in Linux, please help! tnx
ModemData has identified your modem as a Lucent (Agere) 048C supported
by driver AGRSM.
ModemData wrote:
"
AGRSM - At http://phep2.technion.ac.il/linmodems/packages/ltmodem/sv92/
Read Agrsm.txt
"
The first line means: this is the place on the Web where you will find
the driver.
The second line means: when you used scanModem to obtain ModemData.txt,
you found ModemData.txt in a directory named Modem.
This directory contains a file named Agrsm.txt. ModemData.txt asks you
to read it.
If a beginner you are likely find hard to read it ans ask yourself why
should you read it.
So, what you can do at the very beginner level is to download from the
address above the file agrsm-alpha.tar.bz2 into your logon directory
Then give the command
tar jxf agrsm-alpha.tar.bz2
This will create a new subdirectory named agrsm . Enter it with command
cd agrsm
Give the command
ls
to see which files are present in this directory agrsm
One is named README
Read it using the command
less README
With this command named less you can read and read back, go to the
beginning with < and to the end with > , you can use the keyboard
arrows, page up, page down, and you use the space bar to get to the next
page.
Now you are ready to build the driver except that with Ubuntu you must
type the commands as follows:
sudo make module
sudo make install
(the command sudo is not quoted in file README, specific to Debian and
Ubuntu systems).
There are several ways to continue.
kppp suggested in README is reasonable.
I personally prefer using wvdial because it gives many messages and
makes life possible when kppp fails.
Details at: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/wvdial.html
PLEASE TELL US THE RESULT, SUCCESS OR FAILURE.
If FAILURE, do not write "there is an error" as this gives us no
information. Please write everything you did and all the error messages.
A good way to do it is to give the commands as follows:
sudo make module | tee mywork.txt
sudo make install | tee -a mywork.txt
The | sign is usually above \ on most keyboards (| visible as if cut in
middle)
The tee command will make a copy of the outputs of make module and make
install into the file so that you just need to send us the file.
If you follow my advice to use wvdial (one step, wvdialconf, then wvdial
every time you want to connect) you can again use the tee command to
record the outputs of wvdialconf and wvdial to help us help you.
Jacques
