[vox-tech] SM56 Motorola Query

[Jonathan Stickel]

Karthikeyan

I have recently configured "winmodems" in RH9 on two different systems, 
but they were not Motorola (they were Lucent and Conexant).  Anyway, it 
seems that your modem has some limited Linux support directly from 
Motorola.  This is unfortunate because they have not supported it beyond 
RH7.1, but no one in the Linux community has picked it up.

Anyway, you may be able to troubleshoot a little.  I think it is rare 
for modems to be automagically detected, especially winmodems.  You need 
to manually tell your PPP software which device to look (e.g. /dev/modem 
if there is a proper symlink).  Also, specific kernel modules often need 
to load before the modem will work.  You can check to see if they exist 
in /lib/modules/, and you can run /sbin/depmod to check whether all your 
modules will load properly.  Hope this helps.

Jonathan


karthikeyan.balasubramanian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Is it true that SM56 Motorola Modem wont run on Redhat 9.0 kernel
> 2.4.20-8.
> 
>   Oh btw i also installed their driver which they have put in ther website.
> and run the sm56setup program
>  but when i try to run kppp it say modem not found.  After this only i
> decided may be i should keep a
> lower version of kernal.
> 
> I tried to install lower version of kernel 2.4.2-2.rpm but unfortunately the
> filesystem i have is a journalized one and after making entry in
> /etc/grub.conf for the old kernel and when i did a reboot i was able to see
> the old kernel in the
> grub list but when i select i get an Error complaining about filesystem and
> also a File not found error.  Guess
> the first error has something to do with my currect filesystem being
> journalized and next one i m not sure
> cause i m pointing to the right vxlinuz file in the grub.conf.
> 
>   That puts the questions
>  1. can i convert my existing filesystem from ext3 to ext2, sure vice versa
> is possible
>  2. anybody out there have any luck with sm56 motorola modem.
> 
>   Going to play around with redhat linux 9.0 more so before i break
> something any help would be helpful :).
> 
>   Have a great day.
> 
> Karthikeyan B
> 
> 
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