[ltp] Modem on A22p with RH 8.0

[James Mckenzie]

Steve:

The 'taint' is because of the non-GPL license for the lt_modemobj.o
code.  The code is not publically available from Agere.

James Mckenzie

On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 11:56, Stephen Gregory wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Original Message:
> > -----------------
> > 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
> >
> >
> > 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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