Hi! After successfully installing ATI driver I thought I could try installing a modem driver. I have done this so far:

I used scanModem tool to figure out which driver should download and downloaded ltmodem-8.31a10.tar.gz.

Gunziped and tared it, ran build_rpm, ran rpm2tgz on what I got from it and that installed packedge with installpkg. All went well, but as I said in the heading, what should I do now?

I tried kppp - added modem and account tried 'conect', but only thing I got is 'modem is busy'.

Any help is appreciated. I don't really know what I am doing here - I jut tried to mimic what have done with ATI graphic driver.

Please checkout LQ tutorials hardware section for article on winmodems in linux. Good luck.

In slackware it is probably better to directly build the modem module and install it from the *tar.gz source code. If you read the instructions in the extracted ltmodem-8.31a10.tar.gz files it will tell you how to run the scripts that build and install the module.

The basic sequence is:
./build_module
./ltinst2
./autoload

Note that you need kernel sources installed and this only works for the 2.4.x kernel series. If you are using the 2.6 kernel search the posts in slackware as there is a modified source code for the LTmodem you need to use for 2.6.13 kernels. I would recommend you "removepkg" on what you previously built and installed and install directly from source.

Lastly, the build process makes a link /dev/ttyLT0 -> /dev/modem.
A minor bug in later versions of slackware is that /dev/modem is already linked to /dev/ttyS3 (com4) at install even if you bypass pppsetup at install. You need to delete the link to /dev/ttyS3 by running rm /dev/modem as root prior to running the above sequence. When you set up your ppp scripts (pppsetup or kppp or gppp) use /dev/modem.

All newbie's need to get on the internet and with time you will learn how to utilize the info the comes with the source code and how to search the forums. Actually if you search using shepper as poster you will see several prior posts that should have gotten you up and running.

Thank you for replys.

How can I find what version of Slackware I have, because I don't have sources installed yet. I need to get the CD's with matching source I guess.

There is really no problem with lack of information, but with to much of it. I try not to ask something that is already answered, but all these threads and info from scnaModem... I still couldn't find a solution.

I am browsing through your post, now.

cat /etc/slackware-version