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I have purchased a compaq presario 2200 which Suse/Yast tells me requires a smartlink modem to make the internal modem active.
I have installed the following smartlink driver:smartlink-softmodem-2.9.10-3.2.i586.rpm
When dialing out the following occurs:
SuSE Meta pppd (smpppd-ifcfg), Version 1.16 on linux.
Status is: disconnected
trying to connect to smpppd
connect to smpppd
Status is: disconnected
Status is: connecting
pppd[0]: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded.
pppd[0]: tcgetattr: No such file or directory (line 926)
Status is: disconnected
pppd[0] died: Fatal pppd error (exit code 1)
The below is the information I have obtained from the hardware config file in relation to the modem:
<4>slamr: unsupported module, tainting kernel.
<4>slamr: module license 'Smart Link Ltd.' taints kernel.
<6>slamr: SmartLink AMRMO modem.
<6>slamr: probe 8086:24c6 ICH4 card...
<7>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.6 to 64
<4>slamr: mc97 codec is CXT30
<6>slamr: slamr0 is ICH4 card.
I have a "Hewlett-Packard Company Modem" although it is a different version and I had to do some different stuff. Anyway maybe this'll help.
do
ls -l /dev/modem
if /dev/modem isn't pointin to /dev/ttySL0 then rm /dev/modem and ln -s /dev/ttySL0 /dev/modem
Going into control center and yast modules network devices and add a new modem, don't try and configure the one that is already there, well, at least it wouldn't work for me, using /dev/modem as your modem device.
As root run the slmodemd
/usr/sbin/slmodemd --country=<Whatever country you're in > <whatever device your modem is>
e.g
/usr/sbin/slmodemd --country=UK /dev/slamr0
for countrylist you an do /usr/sbin/slmodemd --countrylist and you can use output of dmesg to see whatever device slamr is using.
Try connecting again with the new modem settings you've just made. It can take a while but you can watch the output of what's happening by using the "View Log" option of the KInternet tool. Maybe help you a little, but as I said, my modem is slightly different.
If you cant get it going maybe try using wvdial. Its the only one that I can get to work on my thinkpad. (must admit, once I got it to work, I havent looked into getting anything else to work.) Have a look at man pppd for the error codes.
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