Lawson and Steve,
I know very little about Ubuntu and Debian systems: I use RPM systems
based on RedHat, quite different from yours.
Nevertheless, I want to try to help you, no promise to succeed.
You will have to cooperate quite a bit.
All the following is to be done using kernel 2.6.28-15
First of all, could both of you run scanModem and send me the file
ModemData.txt generated by scanModem?
Steve, we need the complete file which often contains critical
information believed to be irrelevant by beginners.
We do not need the other files coming along with ModemData.txt
Next, please give the command
ls -l /usr/src/linux > sf-kernels.txt (Lawson, please name it
lb-kernels.txt to help me identify) and send me
that output sf-kernels.txt as well.
Next, Steve quotes having successfully used the following file:
http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntu-modems/web/modem-driver-downloads-for-537ep
This is a link, not a file.
However it is easy (but is it right?) to guess that both of you have
taken from the the file pointed at as:
Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 Release 2 (Kernel 2.6.28-11-generic):
http://www.mediafire.com/?qfiisd4myym
which is intel537ep-intrepid_2-Philippe.Vouters_i386.deb
Lawson, did you use EXACTLY the same file from EXACTLY the same place?
Next I have to present to you the Linux command tee asking you to
forgive me if you already know it.
To understand it, just type the trivial command echo Hello
which writes "Hello" on your screen.
Now type echo Hello | tee junk.txt and then cat junk.txt .
Seeing what tee did? Added a copy of the screen
output to file arbitrarily named junk.txt . Note that | is the vertical
bar (usually broken in two parts) on your keyboard, normally above the
backslash \ .
If you repeat with anything else than Hello, for example echo How are
you? | tee junk.txt , you will only see
"How are you?".
If you want to cumulate the outputs of a series of commands you type
... | tee -a junk.txt ( -a means append).
So, now we are ready for starting our job.
Please download that file
intel537ep-intrepid_2-Philippe.Vouters_i386.deb if you do not already
have it handy.
Now type this command:
sudo dpkg -1 intel537ep-intrepid_2-Philippe.Vouters_i386.deb | tee
sf.txt (lb.txt for Lawson so I can identify).
and send me as mail attachments the file sf.txt ( or lb.txt) just created.
It would be a good idea to read those files before shipping, to make
sure that they show the error which worries you.
You know the command less , right?, which lets you browse up/down by
screens along a long file:
less sf.txt , PageUp,PageDown, or space bar, or arrows to go one
line at a time, and CTRL-C to quit.
Last thing, if you knew all these commands, sudo, dpkg, tee, less, let
me know so that I can stop bore you.
