Andre, I believe you don't have to remove Mandriva from your machine and have to install Ubuntu/Slackware/.... ie, another distro to get your modem working. I have Fedora installed on my home machines and on one of them I have Slackware 12.2 installed and I have modem supported by martian modem drivers. However, I won't encourage you to go that route unless you want. If you want you may download Slax Linux Live CD and run it from livecd. http://www.slax.org/get_slax.php You can run it from livecd/usb also. It will run on multiple computers and you don't have to install it. There are plenty of modules for programs that are not on the distro, so you can give it a shot if you want to. I have a module readily compiled that works for this modem(should work, you may try it out) http://www.slax.org/modules.php?action=detail&id=1038 If you decide to give Slax a try, and use the above module, let me know how it works. Regards, Antonio On 6/23/09, Andre Dubuc <aajdubuc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Antonio, > > Thanks for the suggestion - I tried it but the problem persists. (I should > mention why the 'build' sub-dir works -- I manually added it to the dir in > question.) > > Sigh . . . no matter what I do, the subdir 'build' is not there. Without it, > I > suspect I will never get this compiled. I would be tempted to try re-writing > parts of the compiling process, but it probably would barf as well. > > So, maybe I'll switch distros since I had this problem while setting up > Postgresql + Apache + PHP in an earlier version of Mandriva. I had to get > source tarballs and build the shebang myself -- since Mandriva's penchant > for > using weird locations knows no bounds. With respect to the kernel, they > expect 3rd party modules to be built in a rather unorthodox way. Your call > to > subdir 'build' does not exist on my 64 bit Mandriva 2008.0 development box, > nor on any of the Mandriva kernels. > > So, I have another question: If I switched to Slackware 12.2 would I have > any > problems using scanModem, or martain-full-20080625.tar.gz? > > If so, what distro (aside from Ubuntu) would you suggest that works? > > Sorry to be such a nuisance with this . . . > > Regards, > Andre > > > On June 23, 2009, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> Andre, >> >> 1) Try to delete the folder martian-full-20080625/ >> 2) re-extract it again tar -zxvf martian-full-20080625.tar.gz >> 3) run make all and then if there are no errors run >> 4) make install >> >> If you get error messages, please put them as they appear. >> >> I used to run Mandrake a while back also and it brings me memories >> too. I had to hunt down several rpms like the devel package here to >> compile slmodem-2.9.X code. It does take some time to fix, but once >> it is working all is well after that. The trouble might be with the >> weird extensions -2mdk, -1mdk but that is another topic. >> >> Regards, >> >> Antonio >> >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Andre Dubuc<aajdubuc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Hi Antonio, >> > >> > Now, at least, the compiler has found ../build sub dir but still gives >> > error: >> > >> > "No rule to make target 'modules' Stop" >> > Any ideas what's messed up? >> > >> > Tia, >> > >> > Andre >> > >> > On June 22, 2009, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> >> Andre, >> >> >> >> You need to find tbe kernel-devel package for 2.6.22.9-desktop-mdk >> >> >> >> You may find it here: >> >> >> >> http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/Development_Kernel.html >> >> >> >> Be careful with getting another one that does not match the one you are >> >> running: >> >> >> >> 2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv >> >> >> >> http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandriva/2008.0/i586/media/main/release/ker >> >>nel -desktop-devel-latest-2.6.22.9-1mdv2008.0.i586.html >> >> >> >> which shows the page: To get the needed package click following link: >> >> >> >> ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandriva/official/2008.0/i586//media/main/re >> >>lea se/kernel-desktop-devel-latest-2.6.22.9-1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm >> >> >> >> Do download it and install that package unless you have cd/dvd with >> >> kernel sources from which you may mount it and copy/perform its >> >> installation. After installing this package the rest of the >> >> compilation should work. >> >> >> >> Sorry for not getting back sooner, but I was not comprehending >> >> everything that was going on. >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> Antonio >> >> >> >> On 6/22/09, Andre Dubuc <aajdubuc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > Hi Antonio, >> >> > >> >> > Yes, I was using the martian-full-20070625.tar.gz which I extracted, >> >> > and ran against the running kernel. >> >> > >> >> > reading DriverCompiling.txt #6): >> >> > >> >> > "now build the kernel-headers with . . . for 2.6.n kernels 'make >> >> > bzImage' " >> >> > >> >> > I've tried to compile the martian-full package, but get an error that >> >> > ~/build -- 'no such file or directory' >> >> > (under /lib/modules/2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv/build) >> >> > The build subdir doesn't exist, it has only only a 'kernel' subdir >> >> > with no 'build' either. >> >> > >> >> > One thing I noticed is that the kernel header file does not have the >> >> > '586' after 'desktop', but is re-directing properly to the >> >> > /lib/modules/.... >> >> > >> >> > Somehow, I think it has something messed from the source >> >> > (boot/vmlinux-2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv) with the source headers >> >> > (/usr/src/linux-2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv) with EXTRAVERSION set >> >> > as '.9-desktop-1mdv') >> >> > >> >> > Sigh . . . >> >> > >> >> > On June 22, 2009, you wrote: >> >> >> Andre, >> >> >> >> >> >> The make bzImage command appears to be unnecessary here. Did you >> >> >> get >> >> >> the file martian-20080625.tar.gz? This is the file you need to >> >> >> download and compile against your running kernel. >> >> >> >> >> >> scanModem reports that you need: >> >> >> >> >> >> =================================================================== >> >> >> >> >> >> Support type needed or chipset: Agere.DSP >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> The modem has a Lucent/Agere/LSI Mars or Apollo DSP (digital signal >> >> >> processing) chipset. >> >> >> Support packages for 2.6.n kernels are at: >> >> >> http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/kernel-2.6/martian/ >> >> >> Always use the most update for kernels after 2.6.20, currently >> >> >> martian-full-20080625.tar.gz >> >> >> For kernels 2.6.20 and less, usr martian-full-20080407.tar.gz. >> >> >> >> >> >> See DOCs/AgereDSP.txt for Details. >> >> >> >> >> >> and it also reports that you need kernel headers >> >> >> >> >> >> linux-headers-2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv resources needed for >> >> >> compiling are not manifestly ready! >> >> >> The patch utility is needed and is needed for compiling ALSA >> >> >> drivers, and possibly others. >> >> >> >> >> >> If compiling is necessary packages must be installed, providing: >> >> >> kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> If you have the kernel sources/kernel-devel-2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv >> >> >> package installed proceed to extract and compile the >> >> >> martian-full-20080625.tar.gz package. >> >> >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> >> >> Antonio >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Andre Dubuc<aajdubuc@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> > >> > wrote: >> >> >> > Hi folks, >> >> >> > >> >> >> > I received an error that terminated 'make bzImage': >> >> >> > >> >> >> > 'no rule to make target 'init/main.o', needed by 'init/built-in.o' >> >> >> > ' >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Sigh . . this sure is *fun* to get this modem working! Help? > > >
