I've got SuSE 8.1 on my Compaq Armada Laptop, and it all seems to work well, except for the onboard modem.
Having gone into research mode, I discovered that because its a Win-modem I need a proprietary driver, which I eventually found - an RPM for a Lucent Technologies winmodem, compiled for the exact kernal version that I've got - cool so far.
Installed the rpm, mucked about with the KDE dialer software, and bobs-your-auntie, I'm surfing the internet - slicker than snot.
At this point however the techno-gremlins decide to piss in my slippers, as when I booted the machine next day it hung on the "hardware scan on bootup", and went no further - nix, zip, didly. After several goes, I investigated the rescue options on the boot CD and, having worked out how to mount my linux partition, deleted the aforementioned drivers, and its now booting again. Minus modem.
I've repeated the cycle just to make sure and its definitly the modem thats doing it. So my question is (getting to the point finally) where the hell is the log file for the hardware-scan so I can see what it doesn't like. The /var/log/boot.msg file shows this -
Starting hardware scan on boot<notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S16cron start' exits wi
th status 0
<notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S16hwscan start
(after a 10 minute wait I finally give it the old vulcan nerve grip and...)
INIT: Switching to runlevel: 6
Is there a debug level setting somewhere, or does anyone have any suggestions as to where to go from here?
So close and yet so far, its very frustrating (my mouse now has teethmarks in it
)
advTHANKSance
Pete
Weird Winmodem Problem
