Re: Slackware Rock!!!

Deepak Mohan said on Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 07:44:02PM -0500,:

 > using a  motorola Razor V3 to  dial into the net.  Does anyone know
 > where i will be able to get the driver for the USB modem?

Aw.  Cm'on, grow out of the windughs days. It is in the kernel. 

Plug it in and it ought to work.

The devfs utility will automatically  create the device nodes for your
modem/phone when the usb cable is plugged in, and your problem is most
proably  one of  identifying  the correct  /dev/tty*  or /dev/tts*  or
/dev/ttyUSB* device for use in the connection (ppp/wvdial) scripts.

If, not,

1. make sure  that the  usb basic  modules are in  the kernel  and the
   kernel detects the usb plugging in event just - type in `dmesg` and
   try to make some sense of the last few lines.
2. see if  you have the  devfs and usbutils packages  installed. Check
   output of lsusb when the phone  is pluged it.  Probably, you have a
   problem identifying the device to which the phone is assigned. 

Also see  http://www.hackgnu.org/ril-howto.html (for cdma  phones, but
mostly valid for gsm phones too).

and http://www.eridani.co.uk/docs/linux-timeport/T280.shtml
In  the   second  article,  ignore   the  parts  about   patching  the
kernel. Just follow the instructions about creating device nodes.

If you still do not get it to work, get back to the list - with output
of the dmesg command.

HTH.

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