[ILUG-BOM] Motorola SM56 modem not detected and depmod error

[Rahul Saxena]

Hi vinord,

IF you really want SM56 working, its should be possible, if you can get the 
kernel supplied with REDHAT 7.1, you should probably boot from the kernel 
which is present in 7.1 becaue it probably has the patches, which make the 
drivers which have been supplied by motorola, work. !

So you should probably:

* try booting linux with the kernel image present in the /boot of a redhat 	  
7.1 system. and then try installing the drivers.

* see if this works.. i HAVE NEVER done anything like this before, but then 
again there is no reason why it should not AND as you are experimenting pls 
dont use it on any mission critical or important machine. If you are 
comfortable with linux, do read the The Kernel-HOWTO, to know more about what 
all you can do with the kernel. 

* and do let us know if you are trying this and you are stuck, we can help 
you out and It could help other people with similar problems to find a way 
out.

regards

rahul


On Tuesday 24 December 2002 14:32, you wrote:
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> * LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
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>
> hi,
>
> I am trying to set up modem to access Internet.
> I have dual boot system with Win98 and Reh Het 7.3 (2.4.18-3)
> modem works OK when connecting to Internet using
> Win98 dial up networking tools.

[snip]

> I have been searching using google for almost 2 weeks,
> had subscribed to close to dozen mailing lists,
> sent close to dozen mails but still no progress.
> I have researched problem well (ref. e-mail
> addreses I know of people who had posted to some mailing lists
> regarding this problem) .
>
> I haven't considered option to throw away my modem yet!
> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>
>
> Vinord Anand


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