Olemis, The generic problem is that commercial support for modem drivers under Linux has been non-existent for a few years. Nethertheless, a few of us List members are still attempting to provide upgrades/support. But this becomes increasing difficult to impossible as the Linux code itself rapidly evolves. Your best long term option is to 1) try and get some type of broadband access 2) find a USB modem using Open Source Linux drivers, which continue to be supported; sadly however, add on modems generally lack this information on the commercial box. For your particular problem with the Linxant dgc package, I have just taken a look at the dgcmodem-1.13.tar.gz which is the one to be used for x86_64/amd64 systems. Trying the simple compile of the drivers, there was the warning and then fatal Spin_Lock error shown below. Likely I can correct the Spin_Lock problem, as we have encountered it before. As I am traveling however, it may take a few days before I further respond. Even when the compile is successful, there is no gaurantee that the driver will serve under a current kernel, for your particular USB hardware. The problem is that the pre-compiled.o section of the code may be too old to serve with current kernels MarvS scanModem maintainer --------------------- dgcmodem-1.13$ make modules make -C modules all make[1]: Entering directory `/home/marv/Desktop/DGC/dgcmodem-1.13/modules' (cd /lib/modules/3.2.0-40-lowlatency/build && make "CNXT_KERNELSRC=/lib/modules/3.2.0-40-lowlatency/build" "M=/home/marv/Desktop/DGC/dgcmodem-1.13/modules" "CC=gcc" modules) make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-40-lowlatency' CC [M] /home/marv/Desktop/DGC/dgcmodem-1.13/modules/mod_dgcusbdcp.o /home/marv/Desktop/DGC/dgcmodem-1.13/modules/mod_dgcusbdcp.c: In function ‘dgcUsbWrite’: /dgcmodem-1.13/modules/mod_dgcusbdcp.c:173:2: warning: format ‘%d’ expects argument of type ‘int’, but argument 5 has type ‘size_t’ [-Wformat] /dgcmodem-1.13/modules/mod_dgcusbdcp.c: At top level: /home/marv/Desktop/DGC/dgcmodem-1.13/modules/mod_dgcusbdcp.c:263:36: error: ‘SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED’ undeclared here (not in a function) make[3]: *** [/home/marv/Desktop/DGC/dgcmodem-1.13/modules/mod_dgcusbdcp.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [_module_/home/marv/Desktop/DGC/dgcmodem-1.13/modules] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-40-lowlatency' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory dgcmodem-1.13/modules' make: *** [modules] Error 2 On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Olemis Lang <olemis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 5/13/13, Marvin Stodolsky <marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Olemis, >> >> you can try setting symbplic link: >> >> $ sudo ln -s >> /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-19-generic/include/linux/config.h >> /usr/src/kernel-headers-3.8.0-19-generic/include/linux/config.h >> >> If the subsequent install works, > [...] > > No it does not . It fails as a consequence of not finding this file > > /lib/modules/3.8.0-19-generic/build/include/linux/version.h > > Q: > - Has anybody succeded in ( compiling / debdist / installing ) > dgcmodem for linux 3 amd64 kernels ? > > -- > Regards, > > Olemis. > > Apache™ Bloodhound contributor > http://issues.apache.org/bloodhound > > Blog ES: http://simelo-es.blogspot.com/ > Blog EN: http://simelo-en.blogspot.com/ > > Featured article:
