intel537ep modem

[somi38]

please help me how i can install my modem

[JaneA]

Re: intel537ep modem

Hi there

This is exactly the same problem like mine. But I placed the Q in hardware section few days ago, here is the link but you can find it quickly by yourself allso:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=7751.0

I have to tell you my friend, I am totaly newbee with linux and I can't solve this problem, but maybe you can, just look at the post, it is very clear.

In fact, I have another problem now, the instructions are very clear regarding modem driver, but I can't install build-essential and linux-headers...

This whole thing make me very angry, I don't get it, why someone "design" system which is totally useless if you don't have an internet connection, and to make the system full-working you need that connection, but you can't configure it for dial-up modem because you need whole bunch of development libraries which are not present on DVD installation, and you can ONLY get them by downloading from the internet - and there is the magic circle.

I wish you luck with this problem, and if you can give some help regarding mine, I would be very happy.

Best regards

[somi38]

Re: intel537ep modem

i will try my best to install my modem
inshallah

[opie]

Re: intel537ep modem

sorry bad post

[JaneA]

Re: intel537ep modem

Hi,

I have solved my problem.
The key is Kubuntu 6.06 LTS alternate CD, there I found all the packages I needed.

Works like a charm.

Regards

[somi38]

Re: intel537ep modem

please send me total procedure
i am very thank ful to you
please help me

[JaneA]

Re: intel537ep modem

Ok, I solved my problem using Kubuntu 6.06 LTS alternate CD. So you have to download it and burn it, or have it in some way; here is the direct link:
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/c.../6.06/release/
You should choose your architecture (i386, amd64...).

Because this is all about having build-essential and linux-headers, you won't be able to install your modem driver, if you can't have installed this packages (and dependences).
I was so desperate because, at first time, I was surfing internet looking for separate packages to download from http://packages.ubuntu.com/ but I couldn't catch all the dependences packages...I didn't know what else to download, how to install...so the whole thing made me crazy.

Then, I saw at www.kubuntu.org that (K)Ubuntu team released an alternate CD, and that is the key.

After you burn alternate cd iso, you should add your cd-rom to the sources.list file. Thisway, you can use your cd-rom for installing packages or updating your system. You do this by typing in terminal:
# apt-cdrom add

Put your alternate cd in cd-rom.
Open Adept package manager and check if the line that contains cd-rom... (and something) is listed in the sources.list, and that is enabled. Also, for this time, you should disable other repositories in the list until you install packages from cd-rom.
If everything goes ok by now, in the list of installed and available packages you should see some of them with "not installed" status...find build-essential and linux-headers for your architecture and change the status to "request install" by clicking on it. Thisway, you could check list and see if there is something else from alternate cd that you might want to install.
After this, just click on Apply changes, and wait for installation to finish.

And that's it. Now you should have needed packages, and you can proceed to modem installation according to previous posts.

I hope this will be helpfull for you.Good luck
Regards

[JaneA]

Re: intel537ep modem

Oh, I forgot this. After you install packages, use the steps for instaloing modem as follows:

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...FullName=Linux *&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.

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. First make a
backup of the file:
sudo cp /etc/modules /etc/modules.backup
Now add the required line as follows:
sudo sh -c "echo Intel536 >> /etc/modules"
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 file /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

Now, this is complete answer to you.

I wish you luck.
Regards

[unreal nut]

Re: intel537ep modem

That's all well and good, but you left out where the .ko file should go! I did everything in the post, hoping that it would make my Intel 537EP modem work so I could take a break off from Windows! if someone could tell me where to stick this mysterious .ko file, I would really, really, reall, appreciate it!

[unreal nut]

Re: intel537ep modem

By the way, if anyone knows how I can get my Broadxent V.92 PCI fax modem to work, please either post it here or send it to unrealnutcase@hotmail.com. I don't think I have a public e-mail listed, so I puting it here to help speed up the process.