For people with Lucent winmodems, which don't closely follows the mailing list of linmodems.org :
There is now a way to use ltmodem.o with kernel 2.2.16 and 2.2.17 (not the hack of using ppp.o from 2.2.14 in 2.2.17 : a more clean solution, involving patching a .h file and recompile kernel & modules ). Many thanks to Mark Spieth, which posted the solution on linmodems ML. Here it is the solution: 1) in your kernel source tree, edit the file linux/tty.h : in the structure tty_struct, move the field poll_wait in the last position. 2) rebuild and reinstall kernel and kernel modules. That's it. It shows that complex problems become simple ... if you know the answer! I just tried this on my box with kernel 2.2.17 and it works fine. I was so happy about that, I couldn't help posting my joy :-) Now, I just hope that when I'll need to use 2.4.x, an open-source driver will be available ... or I will have a better modem. N.B : If anybody already knows this fix, I apologize for the waste of bytes and bandwidth. ;-) Ciao. -- FB
