Bonjour, Exceptionnellement, je forward à la liste le message ci-dessous rédigé en Anglais car il s'agit d'une nouveauté attendue depuis fort longtemps par plusieurs..... Lucent vient de sortir un driver Linux pour ses "Winmodems" ! (Pratiquement tous les Laptops Toshiba en sont équipés en interne). Marche assez bien sur mon Toshiba "Satellite 4030CDT". Qui a dit qu'il n'y aurai jamais de drivers Linux pour les Winmodems ???... :-)) Cela indique un changement de mentalité certain chez les constructeurs... [FORWARDED MESSAGE] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [linux-tosh-40xx] LT linmodem !!! Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 22:57:36 -0500 From: Honza Jirousek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For those who don't read Linux Weekly News. Apparently Lucent quietly released Linux binary-only driver for PCI LT modem (that is internal modem in most new Toshibas). Go get it at http://www.linmodems.org/linx565a.zip. Includes minimal install information. Haven't seen any officil information/documentation on it, it's not even mentioned on linmodems page yet. It says it is compiled for linux 2.2.12-20 (I guess Redhat 6.1). Works on my 4030CDT with Redha 6.0 + updates, custom compiled kernel 2.2.12. This message is sent out through the builtin modem ! Installs as /dev/ttyS14 (and creates link /dev/modem). Doesn't modify /etc/modules.conf, so I'm not sure it will load on restart. This is what it reports in /var/log messages on load: Dec 4 22:06:20 sara kernel: Lucent PCI Modem driver version 4.27.5.65 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled Dec 4 22:06:20 sara kernel: ttyS14 at 0x1c00 (irq = 4) is a Lucent Couple problems: It dropped the line once already on connection to my ISP where 3com PCMCIA modem is always stable. Makes the same noises as the windows driver, so it will possibly have similar qualities to it - generally I found 3com modem much more reliable than LT modem under windows. Doesn't work with kppp for me. Hangs up immediately after starting pppd. This is what it says in the log: Dec 4 22:16:23 sara pppd[821]: pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0 Dec 4 22:16:23 sara kernel: bug: kernel timer added twice at c82f5d19. Dec 4 22:16:23 sara kernel: bug: kernel timer added twice at c82f5d19. Dec 4 22:16:38 sara pppd[821]: Terminating on signal 15. Dec 4 22:16:38 sara pppd[821]: Exit. But works with RedHat control panel, or plain pppd commandline. Yet, I didn't expect this to happen so soon. Give it a try. I'm not selling my PCMCIA modem yet - this is a binary only driver, so it will likely break with kernel updates, from a brief test I can see it's got it's share of bugs and I don't see any official support or even release statement around. Honza [END OF FORWARDED MESSAGE] -- Melchior de Contades
