teledyn

Yeah, sorry about that and your kernel options cloning post here now is very informative, it's just that I have a short fuse when it comes to posts that do not answer the original question with any useful information beyond telling the querant to go buy something else, especially when the real answer exists and is simple. "WinModems" are not a "windows thing" despite the name, they are a DSP chip on a PCI card and that's it, a raw DSP chip, and thus they need to have the software you would normally find in an old-school USR/Hayes type modem, that is no crime and it has nothing at all to do with Windows, and infact, of the two major manufacturers of these mis-named "winmodems" two of them actually provide free-of-charge software drivers for their modems (PCTel and Lucent). as for the 14mdk kernel cited above, it's curious that my urpmi settings would locate the source rpm for it but fail to find the binary. I think that's probably the best solution, to upgrade to the same kernel and then use the 3rd-party drivers. Life is way too short to spend it flipping kernel option selects.

ok, here's a potentially useful answer that does not require recompiling anything or purchasing any new hardware or joining any clubs: 1. download the above binary RPM, install it, this creates the modules in /lib/modules/2.6.12-14mdk/other; ignore the errors about ltserial not found. 2. mv that 'other' directory into /lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/kernel and run depmod -a 3. before you run any modem software (such as wvdial) you will need to install these modules one by one, manually forcing the load to ignore the silly minor-number symbol difference; install them using modprobe -f ltserial ; modprobe -f ltmodem I don't know if this is a complete solution yet; I don't have dialup access from where I am now and won't know if this works until I get down to the city tomorrow (where I'll be e-stranded if it doesn't work ) but the /var/log/messages did show that wvdial runs and initializes the modem, so it seems very likely I'll be online while on the road.

or switching to a different distro ... The question still remains, where can I get kernel-2.6.12-14mdk or a kernel source tree that matches the installed kernel? I have added all the sources from EasyURPMI including PLF free and non-free, but the only kernel-sources offered are 2.6.12-15mdk, and the only kernel binary offered is 2.6.12-12mdk -- modules built against that source will not load with that kernel, and the .config used to build that binary kernel is not included in the source rpm. where could linmodems.technion.ac.il have found that kernel source tree to compile against, and even then, why do modules built against the kernel-source RPM tree get tagged with mkdcustom whereas the technion binary ltmodem trivers are not?

I have 2006 installed, the modem driver does not appear to be available in the distro (urpmi cannot find it, even after adding all the contrib and plf sources from easyurpmi), I can't built from the heby-page instructions because the kernel sources are 2.6.12-15mdk whereas the only kernel package is 2.6.12-12 and the kernel-sources will make it mdkcustom anyway so the symbols and install paths still won't match, and even then, hacking sources around all this, the module built fails to load due to "unknown symbol inter_module_get"!!!! I found an ltmodem binary for 2.6.12-14mdk but even with all the latest update/config/plf links from easyurpmi, I cannot find any kernel-2.6.12-14mdk RPM! Does anyone know if there is a proper ltmodem-kv package for 2006 or an RPM of the compiled 2.6.12-14mdk kernel, or any other way out of this mess? besides buying an external modem that is ;)

Can you please elaborate on this? I have 2006 installed, the modem driver does not appear to be available in the distro (urpmi cannot find it, even after adding all the contrib and plf sources from easyurpmi), I can't built from the heby-page instructions because the kernel sources are 2.6.12-15mdk whereas the only kernel package is 2.6.12-12 and the kernel-sources will make it mdkcustom anyway, and even then, the module built fails to load due to "unknown symbol inter_module_get"!!!! I'm at my wits end here ;) if there is an ltmodem module binary built for 2006 CE, please, someone, share?

Is there a trick to getting a DVD Burner completely installed? I found the hack posted here about adding the /dev/dvd through udev's OUTPUT config, but I still cannot burn or play DVDs on this drive (although I can burn CDs) is there something I am missing? Here's the output I get from growisofs and xine: $ growisofs -Z /dev/dvdrw0 -dvd-video DVD/ Executing 'mkisofs -dvd-video DVD/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/dvdrw0 obs=32k seek=0' mkisofs: No such file or directory. Invalid node - DVD/ :-( write failed: Input/output error and under xine trying to play a dvd, I get libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256 libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256 libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO. [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

Perhaps this really needs to be in the FAQ because, from what I see in the stores, much has changed since August 2004 -- it's almost impossible to buy a WiFi card in 2005 where it is not the RealTek 8180 chipset. Full and ready rtl8180 support must be a high priority for all operating systems. What's more, I see on the RealTek Drivers Download page that the vendor has released source code for a Fedora Core 3 Linux 2.6.x rtl8180 driver! Do we still need to be fiddling with ndiswrappers? Has anyone released a binary version of this FC3 driver packaged for Mandrake?

I'm using 10.1 and a Linksys WPC-11 version 4 card, and the brick wall I hit is when loadndisdriver responds with "main(616): version 1.0 doesn't match driver version 8180" I downloaded the driver for XP from RealTek, so it's the right version, and "ndiswrapper -l" does show "net8180 driver present, hardware present" Is there some other step that's missing? Is the XP edition the wrong driver? Finally, and maybe most important of all, RealTek's own downloads page lists a real endorsed vendor driver for Fedora 3! Has anyone tried modifying this driver for use with Mandrake?