Sorry to butt in. While I have been an ardent supporter of HP56 (PCTel) modems in the past, I don't believe they are a good choice for Linux anymore. The problem is that the ptserial driver is compiled with gcc 2.9x and most current versions of Linux use gcc 3.x.
What this means is that when you insmod the drivers, you must issue an -f to "force" the module to load (otherwise, you get an incompatible compiler message and the load fails). Since it has to be forced to load, simply inserting it in modules.conf will fail to load it, too. The only option is to load it manually (or through a script). To the best of my knowledge, this driver is not open source, so it's not an option to just recompile it with the new(er) gcc. Loading it through a script does work, but it is an ugly kludge. Just my two cents, Joeb On 07 Jul 2003 17:42:33 -0700 Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 04:31, paul klatt wrote: > > Does any one know of a driver for an hsp56 micromodem preferably in > > the rpm form for mandrake 8.0, kernel2.4.3-20mdk? > I seem to remember seeing a driver for the HP56 however there are > several model of the HP56 You could try rpmfind.net or source forge > still the external modem is the best way to go > lots of luck > > >
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