[ltp] R40e modem & kernel 2.6

[René Castberg]

I don't have the same laptop but i managed to get my modem (also agere, but on
t40p) working using the alsa driver in 2.6.5 (think its also in available in
2.6.4) along with the slmodem binary in slmodem.(see the readme)


Rene

Quoting Chris Street <chris@showerail.com>:

> Hi
> Anybody had any luck with the R40e Agere modem on kernel 2.6 ?
>
> Had it working well with 2.4 kernel (using slmodem-2.9.2), but although
> slmodem (all versions, up to 2.9.7) compiles, installs and correctly
> identifies the modem on kernel 2.6, I get the output below when loading the
> slamr module, followed by slmodemd not being able to open the modem device.
>
> Using Mandrake 10 with custom kernel 2.6.3
>
> From log:
> slamr: module license 'Smart Link Ltd.' taints kernel.
> slamr: SmartLink AMRMO modem.
> slamr: probe 10b9:5457 SL1800 card...
> slamr: mc97 codec is 0
> slamr: cannot init card.
>
> "modprobe slamr debug=3" gives a longer output if anybody out there can
> understand it....
>
> Have also tried the R40 agere driver pointed to from the IBM site - won't
> even compile.
>
> Anybody got any ideas - determined to get it to work!
>
> Chris
>
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