Guest joachimcarlen Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 Hello! I have an Amilo laptop and have just installed mandrake 10.1 community. I have only used windows earlier and have big problems understanding linux. I have an modem called "Acer Lab. Inc. [Ali] M5457 AC-Link Modem Interface Controller" and can't get it to work. I have no understanding for the different programs and the console but I have downloaded the driver "hsfmodem-7.18.00full_k2.6.8.1_10mdk-1mdk.i586.rpm" from linuxant and installed it. The program said it had a signatureproblem but i guess that it was because i havn't paid for it. I thereafter added an connection with the wizard and choose the manual choise and pressed /dev/modem which points on ttySHSF0. When I try to dial kppp says that the modem is busy. I have gotten this far from reading different forum-messages but i'm stuck because I dont understand the more advanced things people think you should do. Does anybody have an easy step-by-step guide i could use or any suggestions on how I should proceed? //Joachim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 (edited) It seems that you are using the wrong driver for that modem Try going to this link, since it has information on that modem. http://rzr.online.fr/docs/comp/modem.htm It is a bit outdated, but from what I see, the best one is the smartlink modem. Get the smartlink modem driver from http://www.smlink.com (the one I have is named slmodem-2.9.10.tar.gz). Then do these steps. 1. Now, you need to do all these as root. 2. Install kernel-source according to the kernel version you have by typing urpmi kernel-source<version name> 3. Untar the driver, tar -xvfz slmodem-2.9.10.tar.gz 4. Go into the directory and type these two commands to install the driver make make install 5. Edit your /etc/modprobe.preload file and add this line slamr 6. Edit your /etc/rc.local file and add these lines slmodemd --country=INDONESIA /dev/slamr0 & rm /dev/modem ln -s /dev/ttySL0 /dev/modem (The country line is the name of your country of course). 7. Configure kppp and point the modem into /dev/modem. You should know the rest of the steps. Anyway, good luck. :) Edited December 16, 2004 by DragonMage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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