[Techtalk] debian etch, modem and kppp

[Wim De Smet]

On 2/16/07, Mike Carter <mikecar52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> No errors,
> inserted ok

So, did the modem-daemon work then? If it does, consider filing a bug
against sl-modem-source saying that modprobe doesn't work. (you can
use 'reportbug' for filing bugs)

Basically it seems to me modutils hasn't been configured correctly.
Somewhere in /etc/modprobe.d/ there should be a line in one of the
files that says something like:
alias char-major-so-and-so slamr
Well I think there should, but I'm not sure. Can someone else chime in
on this one?

Before you file a bug report, try going to /etc/modprobe.d/ and run
the following command:
grep -R slamr *
This will look through all the files for the name 'slamr'. I noticed
bug #264359[1] which caused the device major value to change in a
newer release. It could be that the old configuration has been left
behind in some way, which would explain why the kernel can't manage to
load it. There's a ton of other stuff that could be going wrong
though, I'm just guessing here. Be sure to post all output of commands
etc. on here so we get a better idea of what's going on. Could you
state specifically what version of sl-modem-source you compiled?
(apt-cache policy sl-modem-source will tell you which one is
installed)

greets,
Wim

>
> On 16/02/07, Mike Carter <mikecar52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > No errors,
> > inserted ok
> >
> > On 16/02/07, Wim De Smet <kromagg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 2/15/07, Mike Carter <mikecar52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Sorry, yes it was.
> > > >
> > > > On 16/02/07, Wim De Smet <kromagg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > On 2/15/07, Mike Carter <mikecar52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Thanks Wim,
> > > > > > I got : debian2:/# modprobe slmr
> > > > > > FATAL: Module slmr not found.
> > > > >
> > > > > --> shouldn't this be "slamr"?
> > > > >
> > > > > > I read my dmesg log and there is no reference to a modem.
> > > > > > However kde kinfocenter agrees it is here.  BTW works fine on windows.
> > > > >
> > >
> > > Hmm I'm not used to using kinfocenter. Try the following as root:
> > > uname -r
> > > -will give you the version of your current running kernel
> > > -check if the module is indeed in /lib/modules/<version>/ (and not
> > > installed for some other kernel version)
> > > - then try to load it with insmod instead of modprobe
> > > insmod /lib/modules/<version/.../slamr.ko
> > > and note what kind of output this gives in errors etc.
> > >
> > > greets,
> > > Wim