Modem "Intel(r) 536EP V.92" problem with linux mandrake 9.0. help!!
 

Hello people:

I'm new in this forums, I have a problem with Intel(r) 536EP V.92 modem, I install linux mandrake 9.0 in my computer, and windowsme in the other side of mi HDD.

My internet conection in windows is good, but i can't detect my modem in linux. i scan the disposibility hardware to conect a internet, but appearce mi net card and other divices. I click in other divices, and appearce several usb conections and the name of mi modem... but i can't select mi modem in that list.

My modem is in the Com3 of windows, in linux is the ssty2, but want i use the ppp to create a conection the sssty2 is not have any divice.

I search in the intel homepage but not have the drivers of my modem for linux mandrake 9.0 only for linux mandrake 8.2.

Please, help me to solution my problem, any information, please!!!.

I have the same problem too. The linux driver provided by Intel is for kernels up to 2.4.18. Mandrake ships with 2.4.19 so the only way I can keep using the modem is by using the previous kernel. I eventually just reinstalled Mandrake 8.2 and then manually updated the packages provided with the 9.0 distribution. I still check Intel's linux driver page every week, looking for an update. Maybe I'll fire off an email to them.

You can find here 536ep drivers for mandrake 9 :

http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/Intel/

anyway I can't make it work ! It seems that it don't communicate with the modem and it locks the keyboard.
I can't see where is the conflict !!! If anybody has an idea

Good luck

Mandrake 9 uses a system called devFS. This was invented for the 2.4 kernel . It manages the /dev/(item) directory creating or destroying devices as they are needed.

Traditionally Linux creates hundreds of devices 'in case' you need them, devFS makes the device when it is ordered by the software driver and removes it when there is no need for it. Your problem might be the creation of a link, typically from /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS(x) to the new directory structure /dev/tty/(#).

I had an unsolvable problem with my modem installation because it required me to run 'setserial' on a dev device. The software would create the device, I'd set it up and then the dev system would destroy the link.

Find the setup routine for your modem and run it from the command line or go through 'dmesg' to see what the response is to the modem setup.


Bo

Hullo am a new user of this forum but need lots of your help. My Modem is Intel(R) 536EP V.92 and i use suse 8.0 i have failed to get the software for my modem thus i cant surf on my BOX. Please assist. My email is webmaster@vien.zzn.com Thanks