How to install Modem

[true_friend]

Hi
i have intel 536ep modem i could not install it as the old method i used in ubuntu 5.10.
Tell me how can i install my intel 5628 modem.
Regards.
True_Friend

[unixual]

Re: How to install Modem

Same here....have dial up US Robotics modem that works for sure with freebsd, fedora core 4, and others......am also familiar with kppp, can't for the life of me find the secret combination of file permissions and added resolv.conf file to log on.....damn shame, your dead in the water without an internet connection, no updates, no driver updates, mail...nothing......You'd think that would be top priority in the makeing it user friendly department, guess not eh?.....I also had no problems with an earlier version of UBUNTU....but Kubuntu appently isn't ready for prime time just yet. It's not your hardware it's the program.....best of luck please post if you find a solution......

Yours truly,

Unixual

[Matchless]

Re: How to install Modem

Hi
i have intel 536ep modem i could not install it as the old method i used in ubuntu 5.10.
Tell me how can i install my intel 5628 modem.
Regards.
True_Friend

Try this:
Modems supported by the Intel536EP driver for Ubuntu Dapper
This page describes how to install the driver for the Intel 536EP internal modem on Ubuntu Dapper for i386 systems. Some of these are sold as Cnet modems and have Ambient chips on board. The process below is quick easy and works quite well. For other older ubuntu versions you will additionally require gcc 3.4 to also be installed.
Install required Ubuntu packages
In a terminal type $uname-r, which should give you something like VERSION-XX-ARCH (where ARCH is your kernel flavor, e.g. 386, 686, 686-smp, k7 or k7-smp if you use Intel, powerpc for PPC ...).
Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06
You will need to install the build-essential and linux-headers-ARCH packages. They are normally on the install CD and can most easily be installed with Synaptic. If you need to download these due to later versions connect to another PC via the network card and download and install with Synaptic.
Download the drivers for the modem here:
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri...inux*&lang=eng
Save the file, which is named Intel-536EP-4.71.tgz; on your Desktop.
Compiling the driver
Right click on the file and select “Extract to here” This will create directory Intel-536 with the source on your Desktop. Open a terminal window and type:
cd Desktop/Intel-536
make clean
This should produce output looking like this:
Try `uname --help' for more information.
cd coredrv; make clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/<username>/Intel-536/coredrv'
rm -f *.ko *.o *~ core
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/<username>/Intel-536/coredrv'
rm -f *.o *.ko
make 536
This will result in many lines of output being printed to the terminal window; you can ignore most of them. The final lines should look like this:
CC /home/<username>/Intel-536/coredrv/Intel536.mod.o
LD [M] /home/<username>/Intel-536/coredrv/Intel536.ko
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-9-386'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/<username>/Intel-536/coredrv'
There should be an Intel536.ko file in the directory now; test this by typing
ls -l Intel536.ko
The output should look like:
-rw-r--r-- 1 <username><username> 1070980 2006-05-06 21:02 Intel536.ko
Your dates and times will be different. If you are using Dapper, the file size (1070980) should be the same.
Installing the driver
There are two steps to installing the driver. The first is to copy the Intel536.ko file created above to an appropriate directory, and the second is to cause the driver to be loaded at boot time.
To install the Intel536.ko file, copy the file to the modules directory with this command:
sudo cp Intel536.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/char
Make your system aware of this module with depmod:
sudo depmod -a
Finally, load the driver with the modprobe command:
sudo modprobe Intel536
This command should not print a response; if it prints something like this:
FATAL: Module Intel536 not found.
you have made an error; most likely you have copied the file to the wrong place. If you see a different error message, there may be an error in the module, or your modem, or you may not have a Intel 536-based modem.
Loading the driver at boot time
To load the module at boot time, we need to add a line "Intel536" to the file /etc/modules.
Go to the file /etc/modules and right click, actions, Edit in root and add the following line at the end:
Intel536
Using the modem
The name of your modem device is /dev/536ep0. You can now use sudo pppconfig to set up pon & poff. To use Kppp you will need to create a symlink be able to link the /dev/536ep0 to /dev/modem. Udev rewrites the /dev on each reboot and you thus have to create a new file with kwrite, kate or gedit in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules and put the following lines in it:
# Intelmodem536ep
KERNEL="536ep0", SYMLINK="modem"
Now reboot and you can use Kppp to query the modem as this is a quick check if all is well before dialling out. Configure KPP for your ISP connection. These Intel modems are found to be more stable and less finicky that the Smartlink types on Ubuntu.

[true_friend]

Re: How to install Modem

thnx for reply. but i could not make a link of my intel536ep device with the /device/modem. every time i tried to connect through kppp it was hanged. i tried to enter device name 536ep0 but there was no option i could be connect through gnome-ppp by entering 536ep0 as device name. so at last i had to use wvdial and there also when i tried to connect providing device name /device/modem i could not connect then i changed it to /device/536ep0 and it worked.
i think this should be noted by developers.