24 May
2019
24 May
'19
9:38 p.m.
On Fri, 24 May 2019 16:17:02 -0400
Felix Miata <mrmazda(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
Dan Youngquist composed on 2019-05-17 09:08
(UTC-0700):
Bumbling around on the linuxant homepage for a while identifies them as the
weak link in all this--they stopped developing the driver about ten years ago,
and never upstreamed it. They say the driver you need "works under 2.6.16 or
newer kernels", which probably means you need a kernel version V where
2.6.16 <= V < 3.0. I don't know if any current distro carries a kernel that
old.
At this point, having your guy hit garage sales and junk shops to check for old
PCMCIA or even external modems looks like a better bet.
E. Liddell
Felix Miata wrote:
> Target is a Vaio laptop (not mine) with
2.2GHz dual core with 2GB RAM and GM965
> 14" 1280x800 video. I have an openSUSE maintenance installation (only IceWM for
X)
> on it now, which will stay.
One problem that I didn't see anyone mention,
that you may already be aware
of: The modem in that Vaio is almost certainly a winmodem. Most of those> can't
be made to work with Linux,
Actually it is one that ostensibly is supported, technically a high definition
audio device.
and for those that can, it's more trouble
than it's worth.
I wholeheartedly agree. I tried by starting with basics, determining whether the
modem could work at all. My support mailing list discuss-subscribe(a)linmodems.org
sub attempt was returned to sender. ScanModem found a 14f1:2c06 High Definition
Audio device that should be supported as a modem, but underlying support for
modems in distros seems to have died through lack maintenance required for newer
foundational software versions, e.g. glibc, gcc, etc. The driver has to be built,
and automatic building by installing the .deb (Debian 10) or .rpm (openSUSE 15.1)
fails with "C compiler cannot create executables" on the cli and in config.log.
In
Debian, every attempt to use apt or aptitude for anything since trying to install
the .deb results in "E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)"
on
account of alsa-driver-linuxant producing exit status 77 in post processing. e.g.:
apt install wvdial