I've just upgraded to Slackware 10.2, then installed the new 2.6.13.2 kernel. Everything is fine, except for my modem driver. I have a USB 56K modem that uses the smartlink drivers. I have the 2.9.10 version of the slmodem driver and it worked perfectly with my 2.6.11 kernel. With the new kernel I get errors during make about undefined symbols. These are the errors:

*** Warning: "class_simple_create" [/usr/local/src/slmodem-2.9.10/drivers/slusb.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "class_simple_device_remove" [/usr/local/src/slmodem-2.9.10/drivers/slusb.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "class_simple_destroy" [/usr/local/src/slmodem-2.9.10/drivers/slusb.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "class_simple_device_add" [/usr/local/src/slmodem-2.9.10/drivers/slusb.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "class_simple_create" [/usr/local/src/slmodem-2.9.10/drivers/slamr.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "class_simple_device_remove" [/usr/local/src/slmodem-2.9.10/drivers/slamr.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "class_simple_destroy" [/usr/local/src/slmodem-2.9.10/drivers/slamr.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "class_simple_device_add" [/usr/local/src/slmodem-2.9.10/drivers/slamr.ko] undefined!

It still creates and installs the .ko files, but when I try to run the daemon I get this:

error: mdm setup: cannot open dev `/dev/slusb0': No such device or address
error: cannot setup device `/dev/slusb0'

After browsing the posts here last night I tried the 2.9.9e driver as someone suggested, but that turned out to be for amr modems. That didn't help since mine's usb.

Maybe you need the ungrab-winmodem module since newer 2.6 kernels refuse to accept proprietary drivers. You can find the module here . Note that after installing the module you must load it before loading slusb with If you have already tried to load slusb, you must run 'modprobe -r slusb' before loading ungrab-winmodem (in my case, for some reason, I must run '/sbin/modprobe -r slamr' everytime I boot, so I added a few lines to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local to do it all automatically at boot).

I tried the ungrab-winmodem module. It segfaults when it's modprobed. I don't understand what's wrong. There were no problems when running the same version on my 2.6.11 kernel. When setting up the new 2.6.13.2 I imported the config from the .11 and skimmed through it to make sure everything still looks correct. I was having the same problem with class errors while building the linuxant module for my 56k modem. They provided a patch to fix that. Does anyone know of a similar patch for the slmodem driver?

Sorry, I don't know what might be wrong, but you still can run the scanModem tool to see what's wrong. You can find it here . After you run it you can send the required files to discuss@linmodems.org to see what they have to tell you. I hope it works.

dracolich, i got the same problem when compiling the drivers using the 2.6.13 kernel. take a look at this links:

http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/pack...lusb.patch.doc
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/pack...slusb.patch.gz

I have not tested it, because my modem is AMR. Hope it help you.

Sorry for the horrible English XD