[ltp] Softmodem in R51 doesnt work in SuSE 9.1

Greg Meyer linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 8 Aug 2004 16:06:41 -0400


On Sunday 08 August 2004 01:54 pm, Uwe R=F6=DFner wrote:
> Hi Jeffrey
>
> On Freitag, 30. Juli 2004 17:09 Jeffrey Taylor wrote:
>
> Sorry for my late response...
>
> > > I have a problem with a new Thinkpad R51 running under SuSE 9.1 Linux.
> > > The internal softmodem doesn?t work (I can ? speak? with the modem, b=
ut
> > > it doesn ?t dial). YAST is able to identify the modem and I can
> > > configure it (the package smartlink-softmodems is installed)
> >
> > Install the following packages:
> >
> > km_smartlink-softmodem-2.9.6-79
> > smartlink-softmodem-2.9.6-79
>
> I have done this, but without success. The modem doesn=B4t dial and after
> some seconds I get =B4no carrier=B4.
>
> Thank you for your hint.
>
> --
> Regards, Uwe.
Do you have the right dev links.  I had to create a link from /dev/modem=20
to /dev/ttyS4, which is the device setup by the modem.
=2D-=20
/g