Roland's response doesn't fully represent the situation. Philippe is a volunteer maintainer of the Intel-536-537 software, which ceased to be updated by Intel some years ago. He began this service some years ago, initially to maintain communication with a distant relative whose PC has a Intel-537 modem. But Philippe continues to give very good service to this List, updating the modem code with major releases of major Linux distros This is in addition to Phillipes full time job with HP, which itself has been generally helpful in providing Linux printer drivers gratis. But it is impossible with his volunteer time, to keep up with the nuances of every kernel release of every distro. But for users with c, such as Roland Hughes <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> which can charge there own company for commercial services, there is a special situation. Phillipe has permission from HP to workout their problem, provided HP (not Phillipe directly) is paid for the time involved. One such payment would of course benefit all Karmac users. With the exception of the for pay Conexant modem software from Linuxant.com , all other Proprietary modem software is not know commercially serviced. Philippe has participated for free in experiments, to try to adapt, the Intel-537 code to still unsupported modems, most recently a Silicone Instruments modem which has never had Linux service We are indeed Fortunate to have Philippes volunteer services, with regular updates for the major Linux distributions, and Additionally the possibility of some commerical level support through HP, when Philippe lacks further volunteer time. MarvS volunteer maintainer of scanModem On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Roland Hughes <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When I contacted him about the stuff not compiling for Karmic he emailed me > back and stated I had to contact HP, establish a support contract, then pay HP > for the work. He also stated that I should not expect others to work for > free, obviously not understanding that Linux is the domain of the cheap > bastard...nobody pays for it. If you don't want to work for free don't > volunteer to support a package/product. > > I wish I still had the email, but I don't think I saved it. > > The Intel drivers will not be ported to the new Linux kernel until someone > pays him to do it. > > > On Sunday 04 October 2009 11:38:29 am c.marcano@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Are you talking about Phillipe Vouters? >> >> I didn't know he had stated that... Could you provide references? >> >> Regards, >> >> Carlos. >> Enviado desde mi BlackBerry de Movistar >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Roland Hughes <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 10:20:57 >> To: <discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Lawson Brown<lawsonbrown@xxxxxxxxx> >> Subject: Re: Intel 537EP, openSuse 11.1, Kernel 2.6.29.1.1-pae. Driver >> fails to compile. >> >> The Intel drivers won't build on the Karmic Koala release of Ubuntu or any >> release using that kernel. The person maintaining them wants to be paid >> via HP before he fixes them. At HP rates it will be somewhere between >> $10-15K. >> >> Did you install the kernel header files for development? This line makes >> me suspicious: >> make: *** /usr/src/packages/BUILD/kernel-pae-2.6.29/linux-2.6.29: No such >> file >> >> Package dependencies are not correct on these modem driver packages. They >> require a lot more to build than they do to install, but none of the build >> packages are a dependency for install. >> >> On Sunday 04 October 2009 10:03:43 am Lawson Brown wrote: >> > The driver for my modem is failing to build. >> > >> > Here is the output I get when I type : >> > >> > make 537 >> > >> > cd coredrv; make clean >> > make[1]: Entering directory >> > `/home/Myrlyn/PC/Modem/intel-536EP-537EP_2009_07_04/intel-536-537/coredrv >> >' rm -f *.ko .*.o.cmd *.mod.c .*.ko.cmd *.o *~ core Module.* modules.* rm >> > -rf .tmp_versions >> > make[1]: Leaving directory >> > `/home/Myrlyn/PC/Modem/intel-536EP-537EP_2009_07_04/intel-536-537/coredrv >> >' rm -f *.o *.ko >> > Module precompile check >> > Current running kernel is: 2.6.29-1-pae >> > /lib/modules... autoconf.h exists >> > diff: /boot/vmlinuz.autoconf.h: No such file or directory >> > autoconf.h matches running kernel >> > diff: /boot/vmlinuz.version.h: No such file or directory >> > version.h matches running kernel >> > make[1]: Entering directory >> > `/home/Myrlyn/PC/Modem/intel-536EP-537EP_2009_07_04/intel-536-537' >> > Building for 537EP >> > 2.6.29-1-pae >> > make[2]: Entering directory >> > `/home/Myrlyn/PC/Modem/intel-536EP-537EP_2009_07_04/intel-536-537/coredrv >> >' make -C /lib/modules/2.6.29-1-pae/build >> > SUBDIRS=/home/Myrlyn/PC/Modem/intel-536EP-537EP_2009_07_04/intel-536-537/ >> >co redrv modules >> > make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.29-1-obj/i386/pae' >> > make -C /usr/src/packages/BUILD/kernel-pae-2.6.29/linux-2.6.29 >> > O=/usr/src/linux-2.6.29-1-obj/i386/pae/. modules >> > make: Entering an unknown directory >> > make: *** /usr/src/packages/BUILD/kernel-pae-2.6.29/linux-2.6.29: No such >> > file or directory. Stop. >> > make: Leaving an unknown directory >> > make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 >> > make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.29-1-obj/i386/pae' >> > make[2]: *** [537core_26] Error 2 >> > make[2]: Leaving directory >> > `/home/Lawson/PC/Modem/intel-536EP-537EP_2009_07_04/intel-536-537/coredrv >> >' 2.6.29-1-pae >> > Failed to build driver >> > make[1]: Leaving directory >> > `/home/Myrlyn/PC/Modem/intel-536EP-537EP_2009_07_04/intel-536-537' >> > >> > I would be grateful for advice. >> > >> > Many thanks in advance. >> > > -- > Roland Hughes, President > Logikal Solutions > (630)-205-1593 (cell) > http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com > http://www.infiniteexposure.net > http://www.logikalsolutions.com >
