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Old 10-14-2005, 10:09 PM   #1
ahmed2210
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SM56 with Suse 9.1


dear friends ,

i moved to suse 9.1 and when i installed it , it sees my modem Motorolla SM56 and it doesn't connect so i used the driver which is on the motorolla website , but it also didn't connect , so what can i do ... and i wanna know how to make it load another version of kernel when it loads if that will make it conect , and i have other distributions ( mandrake 10.1 official (3 CD) , Fedora core 2 (4 CD) and suse 9.1 ( 1 CD ) + live CD ) can i use of of those to install the appropriate kernel version if it is required ...... i'm new to linux and i need help in full details

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Old 10-15-2005, 08:33 AM   #2
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Re: SM56 with Suse 9.1

What kernel do you have ?

If you read http://www.motorola.com/softmodem/pu...User_Guide.pdf
it mentions the kernel versions for different distributions maybe you can get a driver for
another distribution.

Even if you have a newer kernel sometimes modprobing the module works.
When i had my sm56 (long ago) i had the same module and i used it from newer kernels
as well (until one kernel that some functions changed and it didn't work anymore)

Even if you manage the driver to work, the perfomance is horrible (at least in my case and
also a friend of mine)
I suggest a hardware rs232 (external serial modem) modem.


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