Ahmed,
The code exists, although I am not sure whether it is appropriate or
not within GPL. The device node gets created if the following is
placed in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
Within /etc/modprobe.conf files:
/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf:install slamr modprobe --ignore-install
ungrab-winmodem ; modprobe --ignore-install slamr; test -e
/dev/slamr0 || (/bin/mknod -m 660 /dev/slamr0 c 242 0 2>/dev/null &&
chgrp uucp /dev/slamr0)
That will create the device nodes and appropriate permissions to dialout.
Regards,
Antonio
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:10 PM, أحمد المحمودي
<aelmahmoudy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:58:45PM -0700, Shannon VanWagner wrote:
>> I was able to get the packages installed, but I'm not able to get the
>> modem to show up at /dev/slamr or /dev/ttySL0
> ---end quoted text---
>
> That's a problem with Ubuntu package that I am trying to find a
> solution for.
>
> Ubuntu doesn't want packages to create static device nodes, rather it
> requires that modules should have code that (along with udev) would
> create the appropriate device nodes when the module gets modprobe'd
> (or a device get attached).
>
> Yet it seems that such code doesn't exist (or is disabled) in
> slamr/slusb for some license issues (which I am not sure if they are
> right or wrong). Anyways, if indeed license issues forbid that
> slamr/slusb (since they are not strict GPL) contain such code. Someone
> suggested that each of slamr/slusb code could be split into two
> further modules (one that is GPL and hence can contain code to create
> appropriate device nodes), and the other part wouldn't have to be
> GPL. He mentioned atheros as an example.
>
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