From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.ufw2.com([216.163.19.158]) (2544 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 17:54:35 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from [216.163.21.20] by gate.ufw2.com for speakup@braille.uwo.ca id QAA05141; Sun Apr 8 16:38:57 2001 Received: from Pharding ([216.163.21.55]) by mail.ufw2.com (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA06082 for ; Sun, 08 Apr 2001 16:40:37 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20010408163954.008fca80@mail.ufw2.com> X-Sender: bharding@mail.ufw2.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 16:39:54 -0500 Subject: Re: Lucent winmodem drivers in linux In-Reply-To: <20010408050902.B5888@surferie.net> References: <3.0.6.32.20010407223142.007aede0@mail.ufw2.com> <3.0.6.32.20010407223142.007aede0@mail.ufw2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Brent Harding List-Id: Cool, so they give you the source to compile it for whatever kernel you have instead of the .o file for only kernel 2.2.14? At 05:09 AM 4/8/01 -0400, you wrote: >Hi > The most recent version of the lucent driver, 5.78e, works with all >later 2.2 kernels and, even the latest 2.4 kernel, 2.4.3. I'm using it right >now with kernel 2.4.3 and it works fine. Red Hat will not really set it up, >because the driver doesn't ship with it. You'll need to compile yourself a >good kernel (from clean sources) and then compile the lucent driver. Or you >could try redhat's patched kernel sources, but I do not know if this would >work well. The lucent driver is available at: >http://walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/ >There's a link there that says "Lucent/Agere modem resources", under that >you'll find the lucent driver. Note that this one comes in a tar.gz format. >You don't want the one in zip format from linmodems.org, it's outdated and >will not work with the 2.4 kernel tree. As for setting it up, no IRQ >knowledge is needed. The modem is addressed as /dev/ttyLT0 after you load >the module. > >HTH > > > >On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 10:31:42PM -0500, Brent Harding wrote: >> Are the Lucent winmodem drivers able to work with any recent version of the >> linux kernel? I mean the latest ones and maybe even 2.4 stuff? Will redhat >> set this up fairly easy so I don't have to worry about IO ports and IRQ's? > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >