RE: [SLUG] Lucent Win Modem

From: Seth (Seth@hollen.org)
Date: Sat May 12 2001 - 00:07:24 EDT


try here
http://www.heby.de/ltmodem

download the tarball
use this to untar it
"tar zxvf NAME_OF PACKAGE"
cd file name
read the readme I thought it was pretty easy.
let meknow if you need more help
BTW it worked on my Dell inspiron 500e w/ lucent winmodem

seth

On Fri, 11 May 2001, edoc wrote:

> My friend David who attended the recent NPR SLUG is still struggling to
> get his build-in Lucent Winmodem to work -- according to Compaq it
> cannot be disabled to allow a pcmcia modem to be substituted. Arghh!
>
> He has Linux Mandrake 8 Kernel 2.4.3-20 MDK1 on his Compaq Presario
> XL111. Lucent 56k v90 pci winmodem.
>
> I found the following encouraging resources online for him but am not yet
> knowlegeable in Linux to make a very useful effort to make it happen.
>
> Anyone out there willing to either walk him through this via the Internet
or
> get together with him and his laptop and do a hands-on? Or could someone
> gather together the bits and pieces needed and meet him at the next NPR
> SLUG ... sure seems a long time away when you want to get a machine
> running! :-)
>
> You may reply to me, or to him directly (better)
dgerner@welcomehomecc.com
>
> Thanks! Doc
>
> http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/tp390e/
> Lucent Win Modem
> At first I reckoned this was a piece of pure deadweight, but now -- saints
> be praised!
> -- it works fine under Linux. I'm not sure who at Lucent we have to thank,
> but a
> binary-only driver has filtered its way out: linux568.zip (you'll probably
> want to
> check that this is really the latest version available, at
> www.linmodems.org.)
> The driver was compiled for Linux 2.2.12-20 (some RedHat invention?). I
find
> that it works OK with kernel 2.2.13, although you have to insert the
module
> with
> "insmod -f ltmodem" (i.e. the force option) to get around the mismatch
> http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/tp390e/ltmodem.html.
> I have also tried it with linux 2.2.16 and it didn't work; in fact it
> crashed the system.
> Christoph Hebeisen has a workaround for using the ltmodem module with
newer
> kernels. You may want to give it a try, but don't ask me about it! I keep
a
> copy
> of 2.2.13 on hand for the relatively rare occasions when I want to use the
> modem.
>
> NEW: Try this page for info and sources for compiling the LT modem module
> for
> later kernels. Looks good, though I haven't actually tried it out yet.
> http://walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/
>
> Linux Support
> Updated support Jan '01 - The LT modem can be used in many Linux systems
> with the appropriate driver. Linux "support" first appeared over a year
ago
> with a binary driver release (no source code) based upon generic version
> 5.68.
>
> The lack of source code presented problems as it would only compile into
> specific kernel versions. Currently, a Linux version based upon generic
5.78
> is available*, and works with later kernels.
>
> For the latest and best information on the LT & Linux (as well as other
> software modems and Linux), see /sean/linux/stodolsk and
www.linmodems.org,
> and join the DISCUSSION list [to get e-mail] and/or use the archives to
stay
> abreast of the latest developments.
>
> A page by Allin Cottrel on getting the IBM Thinkpad 390E to work with
Linux,
> including the bundled LT modem, is at the Wake Forest University site.
>
> * - The Linmodems.org site has version 5.68 which works only with specific
> kernel versions; Info on 5.78 can be found in the linmodems.org discussion
> archive where you will find things like:
>
> Have you looked at the half open/half closed lucent driver? You might be
> able to hack something into working there...
> http://walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/ltmodem-5.78c.tar.gz
>
>



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