SmartLink Modem on EISystems Laptop (advent)

thekore · 06-27-2004, 01:49 PM

I have been upgrading my dads laptop from Slackware 9.1 (2.4.22) to Slackware 10.0 (2.6.7)

The laptop is a EISystems EiS4402 (Celeron 1.7GHz, 128DDR, 20Gb HD)
when i run 'lspci -v' i get this output;

Code:

00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
          Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp: Unknown Device 4003
          Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
          I/O ports at d400 [size=256]
          I/O ports at d000 [size=128]
          Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

There is more entries but they are unrelated to the modem.

It is recognised as a 56k SmartLink modem in Windows, so i downloaded the slmdm-2.7.14.tar.gz driver from smlink.com but it wouldn't compile.
Anyone got any ideas on how i could get this modem working under slackware 10.0 (2.6.7) so i can get this back to my dad?

Thanks in advance

thekore · 06-27-2004, 02:57 PM

ok, i downloaded the unsupported 2.9.8 driver because apparently that supports the 2.6 kernel
I followed the instructions carefully;
I edited the KERNEL_DIR= in the Makefile to /usr/src/linux

Code:

make
make install
/usr/sbin/slmodemd --country=b4
--
modprobe slamr
/usr/sbin/slmodemd /dev/slamr0
ln -sf /dev/slamr0 /dev/modem (to get it to work with kppp)
--

But then when i open KPPP > Configure > Modem and try to 'Query Modem' i get the reply, "Modem Is Busy"

tricky_linux · 06-27-2004, 04:51 PM

you will need an rpm or files that ends with "rpm" extensions". the rpm you will need start with "kernel-source" or the kernel source. you might download an .tar.gz file from www.kernel.org the version number must be the same one you have. you can check it by "rpm -qa | grep kernel-source"

it would be very helpful for you if you read one of the online article regarding how to install a device driver in linux. there is plenty. so i wouldn't have to write one for you. good place to good at is search at www.google.com

thekore · 06-28-2004, 02:49 AM

I dont appreciate the way in which you have assumed i am new to all this, i have been using linux for years.
Firstly; Slackware does not have and rpm package system, all packages are installed from .tgz (tarballs)
Secondly; I have the kernel source installed, i compiled the 2.6.7 kernel myself from source going through each option of 'make mrproper' ; 'make menuconfig' ; 'make bzImage' ; 'make modules' ; 'make modules_install'
Lastly; I know and understand how to install drivers, this is an error i have recieved while installing the driver, if i made that to hard for you to grasp then i am sorry.

Has anyone else had issues installing the smartlink drivers on 2.6 kernel series?

mAineAc · 07-10-2004, 07:32 PM

I did have this going on slackware 9.1 with the 2.6.6 kernel but I had lots of problems. I could query the modem but it would not let me connect and it kept stopping responding. I think there is still quite a few problems with the new 2.6 kernels. I am checking out suse 9.1 pro and I can not get it to work at all. it is giving me the same error your getting. I am going to keep working on it to see if I can get it. I will post here if I can find anything else. Let me know if you find anything.

dizzi · 07-17-2004, 03:34 PM

Hey thekore

I had the same problems with driver version 2.99.tar.gz on both kernels 2.4.26 and 2.6.7 in slack 10 (incidentally driver version 2.7.14 will not work under kernel 2.6x). For starters, the symbolic link /dev/modem points to /dev/ttyS1 and not to ttySL0 as indicated in the installation instructions. As a matter of fact no ttySL0 device was created. So like you, I symlinked /dev/slamr0 to /dev/modem and got that "modem is busy" message. Nothing seemed to work so I rebooted into kernel 2.4.26 and installed version 2.7.14 which worked smoothly.

There is a live-cd distro "Mepis" based on Debian, which has a beta version where one can boot both kernels 2.4.26 and 2.6.5. It comes with the smartlink modem driver pre-installed. The smartlink modem is automatically configured and I have been able to log on to the Net with the CD while booting kernel 2.6.5. It worked with no problems whatsoever. Maybe you can check out the relevant scripts and/or files to determine whether you can modify them for Slack. You can download the CD from http://www.mepis.org/book/view/1462.

Best wishes