Re: lucent modem on a toshiba satellite
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0600, nagreen@linuxmail.org wrote:
> Hi, all. I was wondering if anyone here has tried to install the Lucent modem driver onto a toshiba satellite 2210/cdt. (if you didn't know, lucent recently released a linux driver for their lt winmodem chipset).
>
> I think that the install program was written for redhat or one of the other "easy" distributions. Whenever it tries to install, the script errors out on the last line, which is trying to execute:
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> echo "/sbin/insmod -f ltmodem' >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
>
> the only problem is that my system has /etc/rc.0, rc.1, rc.2, rc.3, rc.4, and rc.5. there is no rc.local file in any of these locations, either.
>
> any suggestions on how this script should be modified for a debian system? (or does it sound like my system is missing a thing or two?)
>
The simplest way to do it is to put 'ltmodem' in /etc/modules to get it
automatically loaded. But that won't do, because this driver is built for
kernel-version 2.2.12. Using a kernel > 2.2.14 will immediately crash your
notebook when pppd is started.
Joerg
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