Toshiba Laptop Winmodem

[dmangani]

Being a glutton for punishment I loaded RH8 on my Toshiba laptop 2100cds after loading RH8 on my desktop. My laptop is an older model k62 400 mhz. 160 MB ram etc.. Ran the scan modem utility to identify my modem chipset in hopes of finding an appropriate winmodem driver for this laptop. I have a Lucent microelectronics winmodem. Mars2 chipset and located what I thought was the right driver for this modem @ www.heby.de/ltmodem/ . I tried 2 differnet files listed on this site. 1st tried ltmodem-kv-2.4.18_18.8.0-8.26a9.i586.rpm and no luck . The file wouldn't even instal. Next I tried driver ltmodem-kv-2.4.18_18.8.0-8.26a9-k6.rpm. This file wouldn't instal either. I have upgraded my kernel to 2.4.18_18.8.0-8 so It seemed this was the correct driver file. Users on other forums seem to have been able to get this modem working under linux. Anyone been successful doing so? If yes, please share the driver used and the location to obtain the driver. Any advise would be appreciated. A puter with no net connection sucks! Thanks in advance.

Dave.

[mdwatts]

What errors are you getting when installing the rpm packages?

Do they have a source tarball available you could install instead of the rpm package?

www.linmodems.org

[dmangani]

Thanks for the reply first of all. Here is my latest update. I redownloaded the ltmodem....k6 file a second time thinking the first may have been corrupt. This time the rpm ran ( using rpm -i from the command prompt as su ). I thought I had it made. Fired up kppp and queried the modem.... Says modem can't be found.. So I did an rpm -q on the package. Says that the package ltmodem..... is not installed. So I attempted to reinstall. Now it says, package already installed. I then tried rpm -e ltmodem........ Says package is not installed??? hmmmm wierd. Thats the latest.

[chucksaysword2]

rpm -e <packagename> not <packagefile>

A lesson that I learned on these very forums.

[dmangani]

Thank you for the tip < packagename > Versus < packagefile >. As you can tell from my whopping 5 posts here, I am a real rookie with Linux. I will apologize in advance for this newbie question How do I distinguish between packagename and packagefile?

[chucksaysword2]

Ok let's say we were trying to uninstall Samba. We would type rpm -e samba rather than rpm -e samba.1.2.i386.rpm or whatever. Hope that helps!

[dmangani]

Yes it does indeed ! Thanks for your patience and willingness to help. Hopefully I will get the basics down soon. I suppose trial and error along with reading ( and some good advice ) will get me there :-)

Thx again,
Dave

[chucksaysword2]

Speaking of good reading...
After you've got the modem fiasco settled I suggest you browse on over to http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/ and the JL Library. Both have plenty of stuff for the newbie as well as the more advanced user. Have fun wiht Linux! Bonne Chance! (Good Luck!)