[ltp] Modem on A22p with RH 8.0

[Stephen Gregory]

James,

Thank you. when I first read your reply I didn't catch the -f option on
insmod. However, I have now forced the loads and my modem works. Reading
about the consequences of "kernel tainting" certainly seems to suggest
that it may cause the end of the world, but so far I haven't noticed
anything dire.

Steve Gregory


On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net wrote:

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> Stephen:
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> No.  Get the source tarball and compile it using the enclosed instructions.
> The use the insmod -f lt_modem and insmod lt_serial commands.  You will
> receive a message about the Non-GPL license in the lt_modem.o code.  This
> is because Agare (sp?)(aka. Lucent) decided not to release part of the
> driver code to the public in GPL format.
>
> Anyway, this is what I did after doing a bunch of reading, both on this
> list and on the Linmodems list...
>
> James Mckenzie
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> Original Message:
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> From: Stephen Gregory sgregory@darkwing.uoregon.edu
> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:58:18 -0700 (PDT)
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Subject: Re: [ltp] Modem on A22p with RH 8.0
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> I know this may sound silly, but do I really have to return to RH 7.3 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.
>
> 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. Both times I got all the gcc 2 versus 3 error messages that other
> people got. Are we all just out of luck until someone recompiles the
> ltmdobj.o file with gcc3.2?
>
> And I used to say all through RH 6.whatever to 7.3 that I couldn't see
> what all the fuss was about winmodems...
>
> Steve Gregory
>
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> On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, JC WOODWARD wrote:
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> > James Mckenzie: >Something is not working properly here.
> >
> > So sorry to hear you are having troubles, especially after I touted this
> thing as
> > being trouble free.  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.  The source directory includes a  half-megabyte object file
> ltmdobj.o
> > dated 4/14/02 which has already been compiled by the vendor.  And so even
> though you
> > have gcc 3.2 as required and have compiled the open source components
> with 3.2,
> > that precompiled binary file was probably made with an earlier version
> gcc.
> >
> > Ted Johnson said in his latest post "I submit the last ~10 lines from the
> log
> > BLDrecord.txt which is the log of the build:"  and so I presume he has
> notified the
> > LTmodem developers of the problem.  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 3.2.
> >
> > Regards,
> > JC Woodward
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