Dr Trevor, scanModem provides a way for you to install wvdial: The dialer utility package WVDIAL does not appear to be installed on your System. For Ubuntu users, there are at the bottom of http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ packages with the files necessary to install wvdial, with names like: wvdial_jaunty_amd64.zip for x86_64, 64 bit bus systems. wvdial_jaunty_i386.zip for 32 bit systems. wvdial_karmic_i386.zip for 32 bit systems. These are about 1 MB in size. After downloaded and copied into your Linux partition: $ unzip wv*.zip Within the new folder: $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb will complete the wvdial installation Please read Modem/DOCs/wvdial.txt for usage information. It also recommends that you get earlier kernel(in order to get your modem to function since it does not under kernels >= 2.6.31.X) Predictive diagnostics for card in bus 03:01.0: Modem chipset detected on NAME="Modem: Motorola SM56 Data Fax Modem " CLASS=0703 PCIDEV=1057:3052 SUBSYS=1057:3020 IRQ=19 IDENT=slamr For candidate modem in: 03:01.0 0703 Modem: Motorola SM56 Data Fax Modem Primary device ID: 1057:3052 Support type needed or chipset: slamr Writing DOCs/Intel.txt 1057:3052 has a Motorola chipset, poorly supported by Motorola itself However Zello discovered that drivers written to support Smartlink modems do support the 1057:3052 chipset!! It sufficed to add 1057:3052 to the list of modem cards recognized by the Smartlink slamr driver. There is a ungrab-winmodem driver used in conjunction with slamr, which must have 1057:3052 similarly added. See messages from Zello: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-seventh/msg00846.html http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-seventh/msg00848.html and Alvaro Aguirre about the ungrab-winmodem fix: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-seventh/msg00990.html For general guidance on ungrab-winmodem + slamr usage, read the DOCs/Smartlink.txt The modem is supported by the Smartlink plus the slmodemd helper utility. Read the DOCs/Smartlink.txt and Modem/DOCs/YourSystem.txt for follow through guidance. For kernels 2.6.31 the slamr driver is not (yet) functional, failing within at the Carrier Check function. Thus for service, retain a 2.6.30 or earlier kernel. For Ubuntu users this can be done by downloading the kernel from http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/linux-image-2.6.28-16-generic and from http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/Ubuntu/ the slamr-2.6.28-16-generic.tar.gz Regards, Antonio On 1/27/10, Dr J Trevor Jones <trevor.lorna.jones@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Attached is the output from Scanmodem. > I tried to install wvdial and here is the result: > > trevorj@trevorj-Linux:~$ sudo apt-get install wvdial > [sudo] password for trevorj: > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Package wvdial is not available, but is referred to by another package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or > is only available from another source > E: Package wvdial has no installation candidate > trevorj@trevorj-Linux:~$ > > Help (again!) > Trevor > >
