Unable to get the Lucent Lt Winmodem working in Slack 9.1 (yet).

Installed MD 9.2 and then ' ltmodem-kv_2.4.22-_10mdk-8.26a9-1.i586.rpm , depmod and in business (kppp works), knew I was in good shape when I looked at /etc/modules.conf .

Now back to the quest to get it working with Slack 9.1.

Thought this worth sharing for those fighting the elusive Winmodem issue.

Got it going in Slack 9.1 after a some reseach and suggestions from MarvinStodolsky, thanks Marvin.

Note: This is for an internal Lucent LT modem used in the Tecra series, the following program will interrogate and determine if your modem can be configured.

Earlier I tied to shoe-horn in a Mandrake rpm version into Slack, to no avail. Herein Marvin set me straight concerning the correct method. Yes I know. I've shoe-horned other MD files into Slack, but this one's different, so do it right from the get-go.

Before statrting have a piece of paper and pen or pencil handy.

1) Make a separate directory (eg mkdir /lt ) [ /lt used & refered to hereafter].
2) Download ' ltmodem-8.26a9.tar.gz to /lt
3) cd /lt
4) tar -xvzf ltmodem-8.26a9.tar.gz
5) cd /lt/ltmodem-8.26a9
6) Optional, but SUGGEST READING ' cat /lt/ltmodem-8.26a9/1ST-READ "
7) ./build_module
8) Pay attention and follow the on-screen info and prompts
9) Don't get alarmed, you may have to cycle through twice (I did, but probably my fault).
10 Had to edit /etc/module.conf and insert the following three (3) lines.

alias char-major-62 lt_serial
alias /dev/tts/LTO lt_serial
alias /dev/modem lt_serial

[write the changes :wq to vi and verify with ' cat modules.cong ' ]

Now run ' depmod -a '

Done, run kppp (to check it) and select setup, [ device /dev/modem ]
now select [ modem query modem ] and it should read your modem data

If it reads your modem you're in business.