Joshua, Your current Slackware installation will likely also boot with a 2.6.18 kernel Under it you can test from http://phep2.technion.ac.il/linmodems/packages/ltmodem/sv92/ test suse-10-2a.tar.gz Its Agere code is actually more recent than that of the Agere package. But it doesn't compile (as yet) beyond 2.6.18 kernels. But if supports your modem, it can likely be worked up to recent kernels. Please test and report back. MarvS On Jan 31, 2008 1:26 AM, Joshua Gordon Crawford <jgcrawford@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 31/01/2008, Marvin Stodolsky <marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Joshua > > > > Nothing bad evident in ModemData.txt > > > > From http://phep2.technion.ac.il/linmodems/packages/ get my unloading.gz script > > Use as > > $ su - root > > # ./unloading > > which will unload many non-essential drivers (and may crash your System). > > Which for overheating, Perhaps > > # modprobe fan (or similar) > > > > Then load the modem drivers and run the wvdialconf test (as Root) > > # wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf > > The unloading script didn't actually unload much at all. It left a lot > of X and networking related modules, even after shutting down X and > the network, and modules in use by running daemons. So I commented out > most of my startup scripts and booted into runlevel 1 to have a > minimal setup. After loading the modem modules and creating > appropriate symlinks, wvdialconf still doesn't detect the modem. > > Just FYI, Slackware doesn't have ifdown, so maybe you could try using > "ifconfig $ETH down" if ifdown isn't present. Also, Slackware uses > BSD-style init, whereas your script assumes a SysV-style init when it > looks for /etc/init.d/pcmcia, so perhaps it could look for > /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia if /etc/init.d/pcmcia isn't present. Of course, > I'd made those changes myself before running the script. > > And, since I'm on the topic of enhancing your scripts, scanModem looks > for the distro name in /etc/issue, while Slackware has no useful > information in that file. It does, however, always have a file named > /etc/slackware-version, which contains a string like "Slackware > 12.0.0" > > Sorry if these comments sound a little critical. You've done a great > job with those scripts, and I'm sure they'd work well on Debian or > Redhat based distros, which are far more common these days. > -- > > Joshua Crawford ... http://geocities.com/mortarn > > http://www.emailcash.com.au/join.asp?refer=G84381 > Emailcash - Free rewards for shopping online >
