SmartLink slmodem 2.9.7 for FC2

[Timothy Ha]

Hurray,

I have found a solution at 
http://www.laclinux.com/ftp/lac/systems/laptop/common/modem/README.modem

in addition to what is written in README of the winmodem drivers, I had 
to do

1. cp scripts/slmodemd /etc/init.d/
2. add "char-major-212 slamr" and "char-major-213 slusb" to 
/etc/modprobe.conf (not modules.conf like in 2.4)
3. /sbin/chkconfig slmodemd on
4. ln -s /dev/ttySL0 /dev/modem

restart the computer. Now the winmodem will always work - my notebook 
(Russian Roverbook.com) is fully Linux-enabled again :-)

Timothy.

Timothy Ha wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Sorry for a newbie question, but is it possible to make modem module
> load automatically at the system start? I am using Fedora Core 2, with
> 2.6.5 kernel.
>
> I compiled slmodem 2.9.7 with no problem. But I can't figure out how to
> make /dev/modem working... Before, in Fedora 1 and with the previous
> driver I needed only to run "make install-amr"... Seems like the way 
> drivers are loaded changed with 2.6 kernel.
>
> The new driver for 2.6 kernel was downloaded from 
> ftp://ftp.smlink.com/linux/unsupported/
>
> Thanks,
> Timothy.
>
>