Internet Connection Problem

[azz]

You have a software modem (winmodem).  You need to use the sl-modem
packages from universe.

http://tinyurl.com/55me3

http://tinyurl.com/3o8om

Install build-essential, module-assistant and these two packages.

Try  configuring your connection before you compile the driver.  You
may be able to use the alsa intel modem driver included with your
kernel.  If that fails, make the non-free driver:

Read the docs:

To get the final modules from sl-modem-source, follow these
instructions:

a) First, update the local source directory. If you use
module-assistant, running "m-a clean sl-modem" should be enough.
Otherwise, change to /usr/src and extract the driver source executing:

tar jxvf sl-modem.tar.bz2

b) Next, build and install the driver using one of the following ways:

- For already compiled kernel (eg. the currently running) with the
module-assistant tool:

module-assistant auto-install sl-modem-source

- Using the make-kpkg(1) command provided by the kernel-package Debian
package. This will produce a corresponding sl-modem-modules package
for
the Debian kernel-image package that you are using. This is "the
Debian
way". See the "modules_image" section of the make-kpkg(1) man page.
When
done, you can install the resulting sl-modem-x.y.z*.deb with dpkg.

- Doing make-kpkg's job by hand, changing to /usr/src/modules/sl-modem
and
executing:

debian/rules kdist KVERS=`uname -r` KSRC=/usr/src/kernel-headers-`uname
-r`

This assumes that you are building a modules package for the currently
running kernel (uname -r) and the associated kernel-headers package is
installed (eg. kernel-headers-2.4.20-bf2.4).

- Changing to the /usr/src/modules/sl-modem/ directory and building as
the README file instructs using "make; make install". This will build
and install a module specific to the system you are building on and is
not under control of the packaging system.





So you can do:
m-a clean sl-modem
module-assistant auto-install sl-modem-source



In both cases, /dev/modem is symlinked to the actual device
(sl-modem-daemon takes care of this...)


-- 
azz