Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-24 Thread Tom Massey
Hi Norvell - I'm sending a cc of this to the Mandrake Expert list, because there's probably somebody there who can comment on this better than I can. Norvell Spearman wrote (with regards to the idea of using the 2.2.14 ppp.o module with the 2.2.16 kernel): Could the above solution possibly

Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-23 Thread John D. Kim
The laptop is made by a Taiwanese company called Compal (www.compal.com.tw). They make the laptops for Chembook, Gateway, Dell, Micron, and so on... I believe your laptop is their N30W model. John Kim Linux System Engineer @ ASL - visit us as www.aslab.com On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Tom Massey

Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-23 Thread John D. Kim
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kim wrote: It does indeed - crashed me 3 times this morning (bit of a new experience - thought I was using Windows again ;-) That Reiser FS is pretty amazing though - never seen the system boot up after a crash so fast. Of course, now

Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-23 Thread Tom Massey
"John D. Kim" wrote: Well, what I'm hoping to find out is what changed between kernel 2.2.14 and 2.2.15 that causes the conflict. The conflict is also directed at a high memory address 0x6... whatever that the pcmcia package usually uses. But changing the pcmcia configuration doesn't

Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-20 Thread Warren Doney
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 11:04 AM Subject: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1? Hi, I was wondering if anybody has managed to get the Lucent linux568.zip driver working with MDK 7.1, kernel 2.2.15-4mdk? Worked fine in MDK 6, 6.1, 7, but I can't get it going with 7.1. Running

Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-20 Thread Tom Massey
Warren Doney wrote: The kernel release notes @ uk.linux.org seem to suggest that the module needs to be re-compiled. Yeah, looks that way from the error messages I was getting. Lucent actually got in a 3rd party developer to do it in the 1st place, he indicated, when he gave the driver

Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-20 Thread Tom Massey
Civileme wrote: Well, you are free to pursue this BECAUSE others have worked very hard to bring themselves and you this freedom. *snip* In the mean time, while waiting for manufacturers to come to their senses, I will not install binary-only drivers or buy products which require them.

Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, you wrote: In the mean time, while waiting for manufacturers to come to their senses, I will not install binary-only drivers or buy products which require them. Civileme Well put, my friend! I have the same sentiment! At least Creative Labs supplies source code for

[expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-19 Thread Tom Massey
Hi, I was wondering if anybody has managed to get the Lucent linux568.zip driver working with MDK 7.1, kernel 2.2.15-4mdk? Worked fine in MDK 6, 6.1, 7, but I can't get it going with 7.1. Running the ltinst script (as root) gives: insmod: ltmodem: no module by that name found Though the script

Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-19 Thread John D. Kim
This module doesn't work with kernel 2.2.15 or 2.2.16. 2.2.14 kernels seems to be the latest that can use the module. I'm not sure what's changed, but I do know that it causes a kernel OOPS when trying to load pppd and will often make the system highly unstable. When I do find the solution, I

Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-19 Thread tmas5640
John Kim wrote: This module doesn't work with kernel 2.2.15 or 2.2.16. 2.2.14 kernels seems to be the latest that can use the module. Yeah, 2.2.14 works fine. I'm not sure what's changed, but I do know that it causes a kernel OOPS when trying to load pppd and will often make the system

Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-19 Thread Gerry Goodrich
On 19 Jun 2000, at 17:31, John D. Kim wrote: This module doesn't work with kernel 2.2.15 or 2.2.16. 2.2.14 kernels seems to be the latest that can use the module. I'm not sure what's changed, but I do know that it causes a kernel OOPS when trying to load pppd and will often make the system

Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-19 Thread Civileme
Tom Massey wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anybody has managed to get the Lucent linux568.zip driver working with MDK 7.1, kernel 2.2.15-4mdk? Worked fine in MDK 6, 6.1, 7, but I can't get it going with 7.1. Running the ltinst script (as root) gives: insmod: ltmodem: no module by that