Jean-Pierre, Much thanks for the feedback. Many of your suggestions will be integrated into our slmodem package. MarvS scanModem maintainer On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Jean-Pierre Demailly <Jean-Pierre.Demailly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi: > > I am happy to report that I have finally been able to get most of > the functionality of the winmodem Motorola SM56 to work on my laptop > (HP Pavilion DV9000, running Debian/Linux kernel 2.6.23 on x86_64) > > However, I encountered several difficulties, some of them not > so easy to solve -- I guess that most beginners would have got > stuck at some point (if not all of them). > > Therefore I send here some bits which could help to fix these issues. > > 1. Compilation > > The Makefiles distributed with the slmodem package are broken > on 64 bit machines, because there are 32 bit binaries and you need > ad hoc compile switches. I enclose in the enclosed tar ball sm56.tar.bz2 > a 'slmodem.diff' file which contains the required modifications > to the Makefiles to make them work flawlessly in 32 bit/64 bit settings. > > 2. fax > Don't know in general, but it worked OK almost from scratch with > xfax (of which I am a co-author). Very old stuff, but I am used to it > and it still works fine ! > > 3. PPP connection > It took me some time to figure out a wvdial.conf script that works. > One is enclosed. > > 4. V.23 mode for French Minitel > I was really upset that it seemed almost to work, but the echo of > characters was completely garbled and made the all process useless. > I did not manage to get it working through adjustments of the xtel > configuration files. The difficulty is that the SM56 has a rather > awkward parity setting that xtel does not seem to know about, and the > only way I found was to patch the xteld daemon - using a FORCE_PARITY > switch which I added. Patch also enclosed here, together with the > "xtel.lignes" configuration for SM56. > > 5. I have added some docs that were useful to me, as well as scripts > 'modem' and 'modem.sh' which I use to start the modem services (as > I want possibly to commute with another modem, and don't want to have > them loaded at boot). > > I still have minor annoyances. For instance, the modem frequently does not > hang off when the connection is over, e.g. with xtel. Maybe the init > strings can be improved to achieve this. > > Best regards, > > Jean-Pierre Demailly >
