PCTel modem

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Mon Jan 19 23:00:33 UTC 2004


On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Alexandre Strube wrote:
>
> > Hello people from the list:
> >
> > I have some issues with a onboard pctel modem - on a machine of a friend
> > of mine - I removed winxp, put fedora, now modem is gone :-(
> >
> > Googling I found this site,
> > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/23/2003/11/3/118250
> > which lead me to download latest pctel modem driver, trick make with
> > export CC=gcc32, and compile it.
> >
> > Compilation is not sucessful. Tried in 2 machines, with 2 different
> > 2.4.22 kernels.
> >[error log deleted]
> >
> > In fact, I just downloaded the same version the guy in howto said, same
> > trouble.
> >
> > I don't want to reverse this friend's machine to windows, can someone
> > help me? Does someone have pctel driver compiled for fc1? Wouldn't this
> > be a interesting RFE for FC2?
>
> It'll never happen because the driver cores are proprietary binaries
> (like the NVidia drivers).
>
> I have reproduced the problem you saw, but I don't have much to add.  You
> could try the SmartLink drivers at ftp://ftp.smlink.com/linux/unsupported.
> I'm using slmodem-2.9.4, and it seems to work fine for me (better than
> pctol-0.9.6 did).
  ^^^^^pctel

Sorry to follow myself up, but I should have pointed out that the right
mailing list for this topic is the one at linmodems.org.  This problem
needs to be fixed in the driver, so you need to be speaking to Jan, the
driver developer.

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		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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