Mandrake 10 beta 2 and ltmodems

I have been "mucking about" with Mandrake 10 and find it not as sharp as my Fedora install. I've played around with the usual things a noob likes to play with.....DVD playback, MP3 quality, etc etc (hey come on I'm a long time Windows user) but one thing I can't for the life of me get up and running is my Lucent 56k ltmodem.

I'm preying for the day that broadband finally comes to my area of the world.

I chose Mandrake as I really wanted to have a look at KDE 3.2 and the new 2.6 kernel.

Has anyone else out there in Linux land successfully managed to get their missable modem up and dialling?




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this link may or may not help you, read it:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hlight=ltmodem

Thanks newinlinux. I'll give it a go tonight (work machine running Win2000)
I wish it was as simple as double clicking a .exe But where's the fun in that?

let me know if you are successful, i am stuck with my 2.6.3 too. Stuck with the same error as the link. Trying out again tonight.

Aleksey Kondratenko has a version of ltmodem for 2.6. I have Linux 2.6.1, a Lucent winmodem,
and it works fine. I got the driver at:
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/pack...alk-v00.tar.gz

Newinlinux.....my 16 month old son wouldn't let me have a moments peace over the weekend so I haven't had a chance to just relax and try out your suggestions.

Greg I'll download and try out your suggestion as well.

Thanks guys for your help thus far. Greatly appreciated from a newbie.

Originally posted by windeath Newinlinux.....my 16 month old son wouldn't let me have a moments peace over the weekend so I haven't had a chance to just relax and try out your suggestions. Greg I'll download and try out your suggestion as well. Thanks guys for your help thus far. Greatly appreciated from a newbie.

well mate, spend more time with the kid, more fulfilling than messing with linux.

take care.

ps:not successful still with my 2.6.3, going back with the default 2.4.22, guess i will just wait out for Patrick's tgz package from slacks's current. let the pro do it.

Am running Mdk10.0 Community and also cant get the 2.6 ltmodem drivers going either - am running the 2.6.3-4mdk & 2.6.3-4mdksmp kernels....
Oh well, am getting broadband in a week or so so I suppose I can wait till then...

GregLee

How did you do the step that says "Edit your modprobe.conf to load ltserial (not lt_serial) for /dev/ttyLT0" ? (from the README file of the ltmodem driver for 2.6.) My modprobe.conf file is empty.. ?

Tnx.

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Get the source-code for Lucent Agere Modem to Kernel 2.6 from:
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/pack...-alk-2.tar.bz2

Then do this:
1)Unzip to a dir - [home/ale#] bunzip ltmodem-2.6-alk-2.tar.bz
2)Untar the archive - [home/ale#] tar xvf ltmodem-2.6-alk-2.tar
3)Go to The Ltmodem Directory created - [home/ale#] cd ltmodem-2.6-alk-2
4)Create /dev/ttyLT0 - [home/ale#] mknod --mode=0640 /dev/ttyLT0 c 62 64
5)Change owner and group owner to match /dev/ttyS0 (Debian users: set group to dialout)
6)Create symbolic link /dev/modem to it - [home/ale#] ln -s /dev/ttyLT0 /dev/modem
7)Edit KERNEL_DIR variable in Makefile to reflect your 2.6 kernel dir - [home/ale#] vi Makefile
KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux
8)Then just run make - [home/ale#] make
You will get ltmodem.ko & ltserial.ko.
9)Copy them to /lib/modules/2.6.xx/other/ directory - [home/ale#] cp ltmodem.ko ltserial.ko /lib/modules/2.6.4mdk/kernel/
10)run depmod -a - [home/ale#] depmod -a
11)Edit your modprobe.conf to load ltserial (not lt_serial)
for /dev/ttyLT0 - [home/ale#] vi /etc/modprobe.conf
11.1)Insert this lines in your modprobe.conf:
alias /dev/modem ltserial
alias char-major-62 ltserial
alias /dev/tts/LT0 ltserial
12)Edit your modules.conf - [home/ale#] vi /etc/modules.conf
12.1)Insert this lines in your modules.conf:
modprobe ltmodem
modprobe ltserial

http://images.linuxquestions.org/que.../cool.gifEnjoy!
It's works perfect to me, but the modem speed decrease.

wow, this is a very detailed step by steps guide, thanks.

How is the speed decrease? what is the before and after speed? Thanks again.

alebelucio
Thank you.

Hello people!!!

I follow the 'how to' of alebelucio, but my Agere dont work in Mandrake 10.0 with kernel 2.6, but work with Mandrake 9.2 with kernel 2.4.

The modules are compilled, appear in 'lsmod' but the 'kppp' don't find the same

Well... I'll wait for some tip

Thanks in advance, Brazilian regards for al!!!

I followed almost all the steps from alebelucio.

In step 9, I created the directory "ltmodem" and copied:
cp ltmodem.ko ltserial.ko /lib/modules/2.6.3-4mdk/ltmodem (not to kernel)

I replaced step 12 by adding following lines to both /etc/modules and /etc/modprobe.preload:
ltmodem
ltserial

A file in /etc/rc.d/ reads these files and does the modprobe of the modules listed in these files on startup.

This way my modem works perfectly.