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Thread ID: 56068 2005-03-26 08:08:00 SUSE 9.2 & winmodem SaAB (1292) Press F1
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338256 2005-03-26 08:08:00 I've been reciently playing with SUSE 9.2 from the march issue cover dvd of apc; the install went well, except for my winmodem (not entirely unexpected). Thinking no problem I went to www.linmodems.org and followed the lucent/agere link to find the appropriate binary (to make things easy), however under SUSE it said that they ship ltmodem with their cd's, unfortunatly that was not the case here.

I then looked for SUSE packages so that I could download the the modem one, couldn't find them.

Tried getting ltmodem-2.6-alk-4a.tar.gz installed, that part was successful, but although after setting up a provider in yast (or whatever) it reported that it was connected I couldn't resolve any outside addresses.

So if anyone can tell me either where to get the SUSE 9.2 ltmodem package or how to get the driver built from sources to work it would be much appreciated.

Thanks. 		SaAB (1292)
338257 2005-03-26 08:40:00 I've been reciently playing with SUSE 9.2 from the march issue cover dvd of apc; the install went well, except for my winmodem (not entirely unexpected). Thinking no problem I went to www.linmodems.org and followed the lucent/agere link to find the appropriate binary (to make things easy), however under SUSE it said that they ship ltmodem with their cd's, unfortunatly that was not the case here.

I then looked for SUSE packages so that I could download the the modem one, couldn't find them.

Tried getting ltmodem-2.6-alk-4a.tar.gz installed, that part was successful, but although after setting up a provider in yast (or whatever) it reported that it was connected I couldn't resolve any outside addresses.

So if anyone can tell me either where to get the SUSE 9.2 ltmodem package or how to get the driver built from sources to work it would be much appreciated.

Thanks.It may be a firewall rules issue. 		Mark.p (6961)
338258 2005-03-26 10:02:00 Thanks for that, i'll look into the possibility and post back with results. SaAB (1292)
338259 2005-03-26 10:09:00 ...it reported that it was connected I couldn't resolve any outside addresses.

If it connected then it is working OK. That it cannot resolve any outside addresses sounds like a DNS issue. Did you configure ppp with the correct DNS servers that your IP supplies you? 		vinref (6194)
338260 2005-03-26 10:15:00 firstly do you know what your modem is? do you know the brand?

i know how much of a mission modems are in linux, im still inthe process of installing mine, the disk is on the way, hopefully its here after easter..... 		Prescott (11)
338261 2005-03-26 10:40:00 Ok. no luck with the firewall, tried configuring then disabling it and still no luck.

DNS is negotiated by the dialer (QTmodem or QT{somethinglikethat}) automatically, I did also try entering the primary and secondary DNS explicitly but no luck still.

it's GV or something like that I have a terrible memory I did write down (F-1156IV) from scanmodem. (ltmodem-2.6-alk-4a.tar.gz) is a 2.6 "update" of (ltmodem-8.26a9.tar.gz) suggested by scanmodem.

I should probably also note that I've had my modem running in redhat 7.3, mandrake 10, and knoppix 3.6 (of those only one mandrake running under 2.6 series kernel). 		SaAB (1292)
338262 2005-03-26 15:31:00 I finally found the suse ltmodem package (an rpm as it turns out), missed the search field the last time I was looking at their site. So tomorrow I'll find out if the problem was the kernel module I built. Thanks for all the suggestions. SaAB (1292)
338263 2005-03-27 13:22:00 Installed SUSE's ltmodem.rpm, supprisingly it didn't work at all at first, but I soon tracked that down to nothing having been added to modprobe.conf, soon fixed that: Unfortunatly the same symptoms applied as with the module I built. I guess i'll just have to forge through some howto's as it isn't the modem.

Instructions; purely for the desperate. 		SaAB (1292)
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