I am struggling to get my modem to work. I had originally written it off due to other postings but downloaded and ran scanModem and got the following:

"Providing detail for device at 00:12.0
with vendor-ID:device-ID
----:----
Class 0780: 8086:1040 Communication controller: Intel Corp. 536EP Data Fax Modem
SubSystem 8086:1000 Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1000
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5

-----PCI_IDs------- --CompilerVer-
Feature List: Primary Subsystem Distr KernelVer kernel default CPU
./scanModem test 8086:1040 8086:1000 slackware 2.4.29 3.3.4 3.3.4 i686"

This encouraged me, so I then tried to install the driver for it 'intel-536ep-4.69.1.tgz', however it seems to think I don't have the the source for my kernal installed?

I get the following message:

"root@darkstar:/usr/local/intel-536EP-2.56.76.1# make 536
Module precompile check
Current running kernel is: 2.4.29
/lib/modules... autoconf.h does not exist
please install kernel source
make: *** [check] Error 1"

Does anyone know what it thinks I am missing? I seem to have a the directory /usr/src/linux mapped to /usr/src/linux-2.4.29 which does have files in it which I thought was the source code.

Thanks

ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/autoconf.h /boot/vmlinuz.autoconf.h
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/version.h /boot/vmlinuz.version.h

I hope this help you... if don't, post here again and i'll try to help you... I had the same problem and I solved it... Take a look at this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5&pagenumber=1

Thankyou, I have tried your suggestion, but I still have the same problem.

The directory you stated did not have the files autoconf.h and version.h. I managed to find them in /usr/include/linux and made a link from /boot/vmlinuz.autoconfig.h etc to there instead, but no success.

I notice that you have a 2.6 kernel, and I have the default of 2.4.29. Do you think that would account for the difference?

in fact i have the 2.4.30 compilled by me... try to run make config_check

I tried running that and got the message 'Nothing to be done for config_check'.

I then went on to do the following:
I ran ./makefiles (not sure I should have done that), I also copied autoconfig.h and version.h to the directory /lib/modules/2.4.29/build/include (this seemed to help)

I am then able to run

make clean
make 536
make install

I got a load of messages I did not understand.

The final message is now 'unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/.../Intel536.o', 'error loading Intel536', 'rmmod: module 536 is not loaded'.

I'm not sure that I have improved things.

Since you have the default Slackware linux (2.4.29), maybe it doesn't come with linux headers. try to download the full kernel. I have same modem and got same error once.

I had assumed that the files with a suffix of '.h' were the headers.

Also, I did download 'linux-2.4.31.tar.bz2' (not quite the same version) and unzipped the files, and it appeared to be the same files and structure that I have in my /2.4.29/ directory (so I assumed nothing was missing).

I am confused that the 'configurator' program on the KDE menu, states that my source files are in /usr/src/linux/ when all the .h files (from what I can tell) appear to be in /usr/include/linux? When I opened 'autoconfig.h' file it looked like the source code to me.

I have finally got my Intel-536EP modem working..

I gave up on Slackware, and installed Mandrake 10.1 Community as the modem driver stated this distribution was supported.

I believe it would have worked straight away if I had done the following: ('' = typed in a terminal window as su, ie open terminal window type su, then enter root password):

Installed Mandrake (3 CD's)
Downloaded "scanModem.gz", (I used a USB stick to transfer files, it appears on the desktop in Mandrake - no need to mount manually)

Copied "scanModem.gz" to /usr/local (using Konqueror)
'cd /usr/local'
'tar -zxvf scanModem.gz'- uncompressed file
'./scanModem' - ran program
This told me my modem was an Intel-536EP

I needed to have the kernel source installed before the modem driver could be set up (this was my original problem in Slackware). This was easy with URPM.
'urpmi kernel-source'
It then asks for one of the installation CD's, and does it all for you.

Then downloaded "intel-536ep-4.69-mdk10-up.tgz"
Copied "intel-536ep-4.69-mdk10-up.tgz" to /usr/local (using Konqueror)
'cd /usr/local'
'tar -zxvf intel-536ep-4.69-mdk10-up.tgz'- uncompressed file
this creates a directory called "intel-536EP-2.56.76.0-mdk10-UP"

'cd intel-536EP-2.56.76.0-mdk10-UP'
'make clean'
'make 536'
'make install'

Once that was done, I then needed to setup the connection to my ISP. I did this in KPPP (found on the KDE menu under internet).

I did not use the wizard (as my setup was not there), key setting were: IP - dynamic, gateway - default, login script - blank, execute - blank, accounting - No accounting.

It now appears to work ok, and I have successfully connected to my tiscali.co.uk and freeserve.co.uk accounts! I did try a number of things which might have had an affect on this process, but I think if I had done the above it would have worked.