cracking winmodem issues in FC2

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Gabriel Mititica wrote:

> Andrew:
>
> >I am running slmdm-2.9.7 and it works fine for me. Are
> > you starting it with the -a option, as I understand
> > that is required due to ALSA included in 2.6 kernels.
> > There is a thread about this from a couple of months
> > ago (Apr May -- I think)  Does your slamr module
> > load?
>
> I compiled slmdm without ALSA support. I forgot to
> check it the option in the .config file and on a PIII
> compilation takes quite a while..
>
> Is it ALSA essential to get this Toshiba Software
> Modem AMR working?

No, but without ALSA support you need to load the slamr module.  With ALSA
support, you need to load the ALSA modem module.  (The difference is slamr
is proprietary binary only.)

I don't have your hardware, but I have run 2.9.9 both ways and it does
contact the modem.

>
> modprobe slamr OK
> slmodemd --country=CANADA /dev/ttyS0 OK
> ln -s /dev/ttySL64 /dev/modem

With ALSA, I "modprobe snd_intel8x0m", then just run "slmodemd -a".  The
result is

    SmartLink Soft Modem: version 2.9.9 Jul 30 2004 21:39:49
    symbolic link `/dev/ttySL0' -> `/dev/pts/7' created.
    modem `hw:1' created. TTY is `/dev/pts/7'
    Use `/dev/ttySL0' as modem device, Ctrl+C for termination.


>
> ifup <connection> (config produced by the
> /usr/bin/system-config-network) FAIL
>
> /usr/bin/kppp FAIL
>
> > My /etc/sysconfig/slmodemd looks like this
> > SLMODEMD_DEVICE="slamr0"
> > SLMODEMD_OPTS="-a"
> > PERMS=666

I haven't read or used these scripts with FC2.  If I wanted to make it
work at startup, I'd just modprobe in /etc/rc.modules and start the modem
daemon in /etc/rc.local.

>
> > I set the perms that way so I a normal user could use
> > the modem.  - Yeah I know that's wrong but...

On a single-user system or a home system, it doesn't seem so unreasonable.
I just add modem users to the uucp group.

>
> Maybe adding users group in sudoers list for running
> slmodemd?!

Or start slmodemd at boot in /etc/rc.local.

>
> Regards and thanks again!
> Gabriel
>
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		Matthew Saltzman

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