[ltp] Modem on A22p with RH 8.0

[jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net]

Stephen:

No=2E  Get the source tarball and compile it using the enclosed instructio=
ns=2E
The use the insmod -f lt_modem and insmod lt_serial commands=2E  You will
receive a message about the Non-GPL license in the lt_modem=2Eo code=2E  T=
his
is because Agare (sp?)(aka=2E Lucent) decided not to release part of the
driver code to the public in GPL format=2E

Anyway, this is what I did after doing a bunch of reading, both on this
list and on the Linmodems list=2E=2E=2E

James Mckenzie

Original Message:
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From: Stephen Gregory sgregory@darkwing=2Euoregon=2Eedu
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:58:18 -0700 (PDT)
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad=2Eorg
Subject: Re: [ltp] Modem on A22p with RH 8=2E0


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I know this may sound silly, but do I really have to return to RH 7=2E3 in=

order to use the modem on my laptop? Perhaps I don't even deserve your
sympathy because I broke the cardinal rule of software and upgraded when
what I had was working just fine for me=2E

I did as some other people have done and tried a) grabbing a
not-quite-matched flavor of rpm and installing the drivers with this and
b) finding this could never work then installed using the build kit from
heby=2E Both times I got all the gcc 2 versus 3 error messages that other
people got=2E Are we all just out of luck until someone recompiles the
ltmdobj=2Eo file with gcc3=2E2?

And I used to say all through RH 6=2Ewhatever to 7=2E3 that I couldn't see=

what all the fuss was about winmodems=2E=2E=2E

Steve Gregory


On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, JC WOODWARD wrote:

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> James Mckenzie: >Something is not working properly here=2E
>
> So sorry to hear you are having troubles, especially after I touted this=

thing as
> being trouble free=2E  I'm surprised, a shrink-wrapped Red Hat distro is=

hardly
> bleeding-edge!
>
> The LTmodem package is a hybrid of proprietary (closed source) and open
source
> components=2E  The source directory includes a  half-megabyte object fil=
e
ltmdobj=2Eo
> dated 4/14/02 which has already been compiled by the vendor=2E  And so e=
ven
though you
> have gcc 3=2E2 as required and have compiled the open source components
with 3=2E2,
> that precompiled binary file was probably made with an earlier version
gcc=2E
>
> Ted Johnson said in his latest post "I submit the last ~10 lines from th=
e
log
> BLDrecord=2Etxt which is the log of the build:"  and so I presume he has=

notified the
> LTmodem developers of the problem=2E  I guess that they'll have to issue=

one build kit
> with the proprietary binary compiled under gcc 2 and another with the
binary compiled
> under gcc 3=2E2=2E
>
> Regards,
> JC Woodward
>
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