Motorola SM56 Modem

[ddan]

Greetings,

I'm visiting Australia and only have dial-up.

I'm running Fedora 8.

I have a Motorola SM56 Modem, builtin my HP dv9543cl laptop.

I downloaded the driver from the Motorola site for Redhat 9.

It does recognize the modem now.

I configured the modem in the network screens.

When I attempt to activiate: I get a message that says:
mru <n> required.
I did add "mru 1500" in the ppp option screen, but still get the error.

I also tried "/usr/sbin/pppd call snowy"
Some characters come back in the terminal, but it didn't work.
I get an "error 8 - the connect script failed (returned a non-zero status)

I'm not sure how you connect. Do you activiate or pppd call snowy or
something else.

Contents of /etc/pppd/options
lock
Contents of /etc/pppd/peers/snowy
connect "/usr/bin/wvdial --remotename snowy --chat 'snowy'"

Can someone help me get this working?

ddan

[dobrez]

I think you should check this link:
http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/

I had some luck with linuxant driver and SM 56 in days of FC4 and FC5.
I don't know if there is a version that supports fedora 8.

good luck

[ddan]

Greetings,

My modem is part of the sound card and is a soft modem. A soft modem means that there is very little hardware and most of the timing and work is done in software. I downloaded "scanModem" from
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/#scanModem

This program was very helpful in identifying my modem and giving me instructions on how to configure and load a program necessary to use the modem. I already had a driver included in my system and all that was necessary was to load the module. Then you need a program (slmodemd) to talk with the driver which I downloaded from the site. These are the commands that I used.

/sbin/modprobe snd-intel8x0m
/usr/sbin/slmodemd -c AUSTRALIA --alsa hw:0,6

Note the above commands work on HP dv9543cl laptop computer. Something else will probably be required if your computer is different.

I also had to disable wait for dial tone.

I used kppp to connect to the Internet and DNS was not working. I think everything was configured correctly. I could enter an IP address in Firefox and the page would load, but enter something else like www.cnn.com and it would timeout. I found however if I went to the network screen and activated the modem there, DNS would work fine.

ddan