Jean There are a few different chipsets under the generic SM56 name. One is supported. We need diagnostics. Browse http://linmodems.technion.ac.il and download scanModem.gz . Within a Linux partition gunzip scanModem.gz To make it executable: chmod +x scanModem Run diagnositics with: ./scanModem Only the ouput ModemData.txt should be sent to Discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx MarvS On Jan 20, 2008 3:26 AM, Jean-Pierre Demailly <Jean-Pierre.Demailly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi: > > I am the (otherwise happy) owner of a HP Pavilion DV9000 Entertainment > laptop, with an Intel Core2 duo x86-64 processor, and I would like > to know if there is a way to compile the sm56.ko module for x86-64 > under a recent Linux kernel (2.6.23), so as to get the integrated > Data/Fax modem (Motorola SM56) work. > > As far as I undesrtand, the last binary blob was released 3 or 4 years > ago by Motorola, but only in 32 bits. Is there a way to convert to 64 bit > (I tried with objcopy, but this did not succeed yet). > > Is there a way to get the slmodem package work on this, also with a > 64 bit kernel ? (I tried with ndiswrapper as well - it does not complain > but the modem apparently remains inactive...) > > Thanks ! > Jean-Pierre Demailly > > > > >
