Internet connection using Smart link 56k voice modem and Ubuntu 5.04 AMD64

[Sebastian M=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=sch]

Once upon a time didier mariño wrote:

> I did not know if the problem was the linux driver for
> Ubuntu, so I downloud a drive from de page
> "http://www.smlink.com/" (using windows XP and Mozilla
> Firefox), but the driver wasn´t executed by Ubuntu. At
>  this time I don´t Know what to do.

Wasn't executed by ubuntu? You downloaded the tar-archive, right?
("wget http://www.smlink.com/objects/slmodem-2.9.10.tar.gz")

You unoacked the archive, right?
("tar xzvf slmodem-2.9.10.tar.gz")

The next steps are the following ...

In order to compile the module, you'll need at least the following packages
installed:

1. The kernel-headers for your installed kernel:
linux-headers-2.6.10-5
linux-headers-2.6.10-5-$arch
linux-headers-$arch
Where $arch is the platform you are using. Try "uname -a" within the
terminal, this tells you the platform from the currently running kernel. It
should be 386 or 686. If it's another (maybe x86_64 or amd64) you won't get
the drivers from smartlink running, because parts of the drivers provided
are precompiled and won't run on another platform than i386/686. In this
case you'll have to contact smartlink and ask if they will provide a driver
for your platform.

2. The "build-essential" meta-package which will provide the needed tools to
compile the driver-wrapper.

(I hope all of these packages are on the cd/dvd)

Next step "Compiling":
1. Open a terminal, change to the directory, where the unpacked  drivers
reside ("cd slmodem-2.9.10").
2. Run "make". The driver now compiles.
3. If there'd been no ERRORS (warnings can be ignored) run "sudo make
install".
4. Try loading the module:
    (AMR/CNR/PCI)   "sudo modprobe slamr"
    (USB)           "sudo modprobe slusb"
5. Take a look at "dmesg" if the driver was loaded without errors.
6. Start the softmodem-emulation:
    (AMR/CNR/PCI)   "sudo slmodemd --country=$country /dev/slamr0"
    (USB)           "sudo slmodemd --country=$country /dev/slusb0"
(Where $country needs to be replaced, by the country-name. You should choose
the right for you, from the list you get, when running "slmodemd
--countrylist")
7. Take a second look at "dmesg" if there had been error's.
8. Test the internet-connection. Device is "/dev/ttySL0".

If everything's working fine, tell us, and you'll get the needed advice, how
to autostart the driver and modem on each startup.

Cu
Sebastian

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