I am running Novell/SuSE 9.2 Professional on an HP Pavilion with an AMD64 3200. I just recently installed a Stratitec IC56A internal Winmodem. The modem will work under Linux (kernel 2.4x+) by installing the Agere/Lucent driver, ltmodem-8.31a8-6.i586.rpm. This driver came with SuSE, and was installed under YaST2.

I then attempted to configure the modem using YaST2. YaST2 showed that the device was configured at location /dev/ttyLT0, with a symbolic link to /dev/modem. I then configured my internet setup to my ISP.

Connection was not successful. I logged in as root, and querried the modem using minicom. Minicom shows no device at either /dev/modem, or /dev/ttyLT0. I then went directly to the /dev folder and found that the symbolic link to /dev/ttyLT0 did exist at /dev/modem, however there was no device at /dev/ttyLT0.

Is there any possible way to make this modem work under the 2.6x kernel? The driver that came with the SuSE package is more recent than that which the manufacturer suggests, and I'm not certain that the ltmodem 8.26a driver will install under the 2.6x Linux kernel.

Apparently, nobody wants to touch this one. Ok, fair enough, here's what i've found out so far, and it can be applied to other Lucent chipset modems...

1) It is necessary to make certain that the driver is installed. One does this by opening a shell, su to root, and typing in the following command rpm -qa | grep ltmodem.

If the driver is installed, a return will be echoed. If not, nothing will be returned.

In my case the driver was installed.

2)The next step is to make certain that the symbolic link to /dev/modemexists. A root terminal is opened, and the command ln -s /dev/ttyLT0 /dev/modem. In my case, the link is already existent, and i have verified it's existence by checking out the /dev directory.

3)Configure the ISP using YaST2.

4)Open another terminal, su to root, and enter the following instructions: cd /etc/modprobe.d/.

5)create a file called modem, and enter the following information into it:
alias char-major-62 ltserial
alias /dev/tts/LT0 ltserial(I think this may be a typo, and what was intended was /dev/ttyLT0, but I don't know for certain)
alias /dev/modem ltserial

6)Restart network services using the following command: /etc/init.d/network restart

NOW the only thing I need to do is figure out how to create the modemfile from the terminal. The BASH manual assumes that everybody knows how to do that.

This is far too much aggrivation for an old DOS user.

Ended up wiping the Hard drive, reinstalling, and using a serial modem. Thanks for nothing.