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From: François Patte on 16 Jan 2006 17:18
Bonjour,

Did someone succeed to have a "smartlink modem" working?

I have a:

0:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)

(result from lspci) on my laptop.

I tried to make it work with alsa via slmodemd but I succeeded sometimes
mostly I cannot launch the service slmodem:

if I don't get this answer:
ALSA lib conf.c:2823:(snd_config_hook_load) /etc/alsa/cards/aliases.conf may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:2686:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: No such file or directory

I get this one:

LSA lib conf.c:2827:(snd_config_hook_load) cannot access file
/etc/alsa/cards/aliases.conf
SmartLink Soft Modem: version 2.9.9e-pre1 Oct 2 2005 13:07:33
symbolic link `/dev/ttySL0' -> `/dev/pts/2' created.

Hurray!!!!!!!!!!!

But when I try the connection, it aborts for "no dialtone" reason

I got it working one or two times.... I don't know why!!!!

This is a "go away and go back" bug!!

I run FC4 on a toshiba laptop (Qosmio F20)

Thank for any help.

--
Fran?ois Patte
UFR de math?matiques et informatique
Universit? Ren? Descartes
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte

From: cMz on 17 Jan 2006 07:55
Fran?ois Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> Did someone succeed to have a "smartlink modem" working?
>

[snip]

Been using it on my Compaq nx9110 laptop since Mandrakelinux 10.1.
Compiled it every time without problems, until Mandriva 2006. Btw,
current driver at SmartLink site <http://www.smlink.com/> is the
slmodem-2.9.10.tar file.

Anyway, this driver compiled with some errors in gcc 4 in my Mandriva
2006, which led to 'No dial tone' errors. After some googling found
this site <http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/>, with
a driver pre-compiled in gcc 4. File is
'slmodemd-2.9.11_20051009_gcc4.tar.gz', with date/time stamp of
'30-Oct-2005 16:09'.

After loading 'snd-atiixp-modem' module, I run it with
'#./slmodemd --country=AUSTRALIA --alsa' command. I use Kppp for dialing.

Just noticed on the 'linmodems' site they have the latest driver
'slmodem-2.9.11-20051101.tar.gz', with the date/time stamp of
'07-Jan-2006 20:30'. Included 'Changes' file mentions 'gcc 4 build
support'. Might try to compile it later on.

Hope this helps. Good luck.


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From: François Patte on 17 Jan 2006 17:12
Le Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:55:23 +1100, cMz a ?crit?:

> Fran?ois Patte wrote:
>> Bonjour,
>>
>> Did someone succeed to have a "smartlink modem" working?
>>
>
> [snip]
>
> Been using it on my Compaq nx9110 laptop since Mandrakelinux 10.1.
> Compiled it every time without problems, until Mandriva 2006. Btw,
> current driver at SmartLink site <http://www.smlink.com/> is the
> slmodem-2.9.10.tar file.
>
> Anyway, this driver compiled with some errors in gcc 4 in my Mandriva
> 2006, which led to 'No dial tone' errors. After some googling found
> this site <http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/>, with
> a driver pre-compiled in gcc 4. File is
> 'slmodemd-2.9.11_20051009_gcc4.tar.gz', with date/time stamp of
> '30-Oct-2005 16:09'.
>
> After loading 'snd-atiixp-modem' module, I run it with
> '#./slmodemd --country=AUSTRALIA --alsa' command. I use Kppp for dialing.
>
> Just noticed on the 'linmodems' site they have the latest driver
> 'slmodem-2.9.11-20051101.tar.gz', with the date/time stamp of
> '07-Jan-2006 20:30'. Included 'Changes' file mentions 'gcc 4 build
> support'. Might try to compile it later on.
>
> Hope this helps. Good luck.

Thanks. This version seems to work better than others.

There is something that I cannot solve (and do not understand): it is
impossible to have service slmodemd started at boot time (using a script
in /etc/init.d (I use fedora C4)). This always fails (".... cannot use
modem:1...." is the alleged reason). But, onc the system is up, if I log
in as root and use the command:

service slmodemd start (so, it is the same script!)

This works and the smartlink is launched!!! I do not understand why!

--
Fran?ois Patte
UFR de math?matiques et informatique
Universit? Ren? Descartes
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte

From: cMz on 18 Jan 2006 07:31
Fran?ois Patte wrote:
> Le Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:55:23 +1100, cMz a ?crit :

[snip]

>
> There is something that I cannot solve (and do not understand): it is
> impossible to have service slmodemd started at boot time (using a script
> in /etc/init.d (I use fedora C4)). This always fails (".... cannot use
> modem:1...." is the alleged reason). But, onc the system is up, if I log
> in as root and use the command:
>
> service slmodemd start (so, it is the same script!)
>
> This works and the smartlink is launched!!! I do not understand why!
>

Have you tried to run the script from 'rc.local'? The full path in
Mandriva 2006 is '/etc/rc.d/rc.local', yours could be the same.


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May the Source be open to you.
From: Moe Trin on 18 Jan 2006 15:03
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.hardware, in article
<pan.2006.01.17.22.12.34.25760(a)math-info.univ-paris5.fr>, Fran?ois Patte wrote:

>There is something that I cannot solve (and do not understand): it is
>impossible to have service slmodemd started at boot time (using a script
>in /etc/init.d (I use fedora C4)). This always fails (".... cannot use
>modem:1...." is the alleged reason). But, onc the system is up, if I log
>in as root and use the command:
>
>service slmodemd start (so, it is the same script!)
>
>This works and the smartlink is launched!!! I do not understand why!

Not enough information. Some thoughts: NORMALLY, when a script won't
run automatically, but will run manually, there is a PATH issue. The
boot scripts are run "as root", so permissions isn't an issue, but the
PATH is usually set to something like 'PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin'
early in the boot, and unchanged by other boot scripts. But after the
system is up, and you've logged in, 'echo $PATH' is going to give a few
more directories.

Another possible factor is that the slmodemd service MAY depend on some
other service. This might be obvious in reading the script. Moving the
script to later in the boot cycle (example, S98slmodemd, rather than
what-ever it is now) might make a difference.

Old guy
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