Agere LT Winmodem setup...
 

A year ago, I bought a stratitec modem from wal-mart, popped it in my Redhat 9 box, put the installation CD in, built the driver from source, and everything was all fine. Now I've got a new PC with Suse 10.1 + Windows XP home edition, with the same modem (I replaced the original one with the one I bought previously for speed increase) and I have no clue how to set it up on Suse 10.1.

I can't find the original CD, and I tried downloading lt_modem sources from linmodems.org but the source code failed to build due to a missing "modversions.h". I tried to build the martian driver but gcc keeps complaining about crap. I tried modprobing the martian_drv but that is not enough to set everything up. There is no /dev/modem or /dev/ttyLT0 or anything like that. My modem is on COM3, according to windows, but when I tried to set wvdial to dial up /dev/ttyS0-S4 nothing happens. It says the device is busy.

I installed the modem drivers that came with 10.1 CD, but nothing happened. I am using the gnome desktop, and I can't find the dial-up tool. Has any other 10.1 Suse user solved the issue of a Agere LT pci modem?

I did run scanModem and sent it to discuss@linmodems.org but no one has replied. I looked at the ModemData.txt and it said something about trying to install a low-level alsa driver (such as snd-intel-x8m0 or something and then installing the slmodemd.) I did those and tried to run slmodemd but it fails to create the /dev/slamr0 (modem I presume) device. It just gives me an error message without telling me why it can't build that device.

EDIT: I gotta install the martian driver--I got it to compile just fine but after I do the modprobe, the martian_helper that I run, it does nothing but tell me that the port will be /dev/ttySM0 and then it just hangs, so /dev/ttySM0 does NOT get created.

Did anyone get their Agere DSP winmodem installed on a 2.6.16.13-4-default kernel version?

FIXED (sorta)
 

I figured it out duh: I have to run martian_helper as a background demon. I'm posting this from SUSE. Now can anyone tell me how I can run this "martian_helper" on startup automatically without having to su as root after opening up a terminal?