Lucent 56K V.90 PCI Dfi Modem driver for Red Hat Fedora Linux 2.6.5-1.358

philipmorgan · 10-03-2004, 06:59 AM

I have a Compaq Presario 1200 with a Lucent 56K V.90 PCI Dfi Modem. Red Hat Fedora Linux 2.6.5-1.358 is installed and I now need a driver for the modem. I tried to install: 'rpm --force ltmodem-kv_2.2.14_5.0-5 ...'
and also a 2.6.8-1 driver, but got an 'error: Failed dependencies'. So bleeding picky, Linux!

Thanks for your help, Philip.

masand · 10-03-2004, 08:48 AM

hi there

when u might have recieved that dependencies error then what file did it specify that it did not find??

regards

philipmorgan · 10-03-2004, 12:19 PM

This is the full error message:

"error: Failed dependencies:
kernel = 2.6.8-1.521 is needed by ltmodem-kv_2.6.8_1.521-8.31a8-1.i686.rpm"

It seems the modem driver version must match the version of the kernel. I tried to fool Linux by changing the name of driver file to that of the kernel, but it gave the same error.

masand · 10-03-2004, 01:24 PM

hi there

this is the problem, with rpm files they are compiled for a specific environment

what u can do in this case is either get that kernel or get the source of the modem driver u r using

regards

philipmorgan · 10-03-2004, 01:37 PM

Thanks Masand

I will do that.

masand · 10-03-2004, 01:50 PM

hi there

also have alook here

http://www.linmodems.org/

regards

Boby · 10-03-2004, 01:54 PM

Maybe you wanna try this driver out:
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/pack...-2.56.76.0.tgz

Code:

su -
Password:*******
tar -zxvf intel-536EP-2.56.76.0.tgz
cd new_directory
make clean
make 536
make install

and also read the readme.txt

Hope it helped, Boby!

philipmorgan · 10-09-2004, 04:21 AM

tar -zxvf intel-536EP-2.56.76.0.tgz
cd new_directory
make clean
make 536

On executing 'make 536' it exited with the message '/boot/vmlinuz-autoconfig.h does not exist'. Is it possible to get a .rpm version of this package?

Thanks

Philip

Boby · 10-09-2004, 12:09 PM

you have to be root when installing:
"su -" [minus]
Password: ******

Boby