Dear Carl, Compile was successfull you mention with newer source, but you have no way of using the modem? You could use wvdial or kppp or maybe even NetworkManager to access the modem and try to use it to connect. `` I have no idea if it actually made the modem usable, as I don't yet have a fax program or dialer that works with Linux.'' For a fax, you may look for hylafax, or other fax software available. For the off the hook problems I cannot recall issues, but Marv may remember instances or search the archives for how this matter was taken care of. Also slamr.ko would be for a true smartlink modem or a motorola one that is supported via smartlink driver. I believe it would be a good idea if you can send us ModemData.txt to confirm that it(modem) needs/requires smarlink modem driver and not slmodemd+alsa which does not require slamr.ko? Best Regards, Antonio On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:51 AM, Carl D. Goldin <cdgoldin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a (Windoze 7 and Linux Mint 17.1) dual-boot system with a Smartlink v92 > modem. > > When I installed and/or upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04, Mint 17.0, Mint 17.1 and Mint > 17.2, booting into Linux resulted in my modem being taken "off-hook" (and thus > tying up the telephone line until I shut down Linux or unplugged the line). This > didn't occur with Ubuntu 12.04, so it appears to be something introduced in > 14.04, which is the current Mint base. > > I have also verified that it occurs when "live booting" from the installation > CD, and thus is not the result of something amiss in my installation. I have > also verified that this does NOT occur with a Motorola SM56 modem, or a > (generic) PCI-SoftV92 modem. > > The "solution" (to the "off-hook" problem) was finally discovered to be > installing the driver according to the procedure found at > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DialupModemHowto/Smartlink. I have no idea if > it actually made the modem usable, as I don't yet have a fax program or dialer > that works with Linux. > > However, this "solution" only worked with Ubuntu 14.04, Mint 17.0 and Mint 17.1, > but NOT Mint 17.2! (Actually, the "off-hook" problem didn't return when I > upgraded from 17.1 to 17.2, until I subsequently updated the kernel from > 3.13.0-37 to 3.16.0-38). For some reason that I don't understand, following the > identical procedure for installing the driver resulted in a multitude of errors! > > Here is what I tried (with Mint 17.2), and the unhappy results: > > -sudo apt-get install sl-modem-source sl-modem-daemon > -sudo module-assistant auto-install sl-modem > > This step FAILED with “module-assistant not found”, so I did > > -sudo apt-get install module-assistant > -sudo module-assistant auto-install sl-modem > > This FAILED with a meaningless message saying the compilation (?) had failed, > nothing more. > > So I followed the "Fiesty 7.04" procedure specified in the article: > > -mkdir slmodemtmp > -cd slmodemtmp/ > -wget > http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/martlink/slmodem-2.9.11-20070505.tar.gz > -tar -xvf slmodem-2.9.11-20070505.tar.gz > -sudo cp slmodem-2.9.11-20070505/* /usr/src/modules/sl-modem/ -r # Now the > sources are updated > > BUT this resulted in ERROR: “/usr/src/modules/sl-modem/ NOT A DIRECTORY"! so I > did: > > -sudo mkdir /usr/src/modules > -sudo mkdir /usr/src/modules/sl-modem > -sudo cp slmodem-2.9.11-20070505/* /usr/src/modules/sl-modem/ -r # Now the > sources are updated > -sudo touch /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r`/include/linux/config.h # > Compile-fix > > And then I continued with: > > -sudo module-assistant auto-install sl-modem > > Which STILL FAILED with the same meaningless message saying the compilation had > failed, nothing more. > > So I followed the alternate "Fiesty 7.04" procedure specified in the article: > > -check http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/ for a newer source > package and use that one instead. > > There were about ten more recent packages. I selected the latest one: > > -wget > http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/slmodem-2.9.11-20110321.tar.gz > -tar -xvf slmodem-2.9.11-20110321.tar.gz > -sudo mkdir /usr/src/modules > -sudo mkdir /usr/src/modules/sl-modem > -sudo cp slmodem-2.9.11-20110321/* /usr/src/modules/sl-modem/ -r # Now the > sources are updated > -sudo touch /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r`/include/linux/config.h # > Compile-fix* > -sudo module-assistant auto-install sl-modem > > This time the "compile" appeared to complete successfully! So I continued: > > -sudo depmod -a (this updates the list of available modules) > -sudo gedit /etc/default/sl-modem-daemon > Insuring that SLMODEMD_COUNTRY=USA > -sudo modprobe slamr > > This resulted in: > ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:809 kmod_module_insert_module() could not > find > module by name='slamr' > modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'slamr': Function not implemented > > At this stage I am stuck. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Meanwhile I've > gone back to 17.1 >
