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Own a Motorola SM56 winmodem and
run Red Hat Linux 7.1. Frustrated with the poor maintenance capabilities of Red
Hat I am considering moving to Debian. However, that decision depends on whether
I can be assured that my modem works. Currently I am using drivers supplied in
rpm form from Motorola; these run only on the older 2.2.* kernel. From my short
experience with Red Hat 8.0 there is no way to migrate the drivers to the newer
2.4.* kernel.
From the research I have done so
far it appears to me that it should not be difficult to convert the rpm package
into a deb package using "alien". The question is however, which release of
Debian to purchase and whether I have of a choice between what kernels I want to
use. According to LinuxMall.com, Debian 3.0r0 allows the user to choose
which kernel to install.
Does this mean there is any
chance my modem will work? If it does, I should get Debian 3.0r0 and install the
older kernel, or should I get an older version (e.g. 2.7.*) ? I'd appreciate
your assistance.
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