sl-modem-daemon for Debian
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The driver daemon needs kernel modules to access the hardware. This can
be done either with the kernel driver provided by SmartLink or trough
ALSA in recent kernel versions. The SmartLink driver needs to be
compiled as additional module (which requires kernel headers for your
kernel version), but should work more stable and provide more features.
By default, the init script is configured to detect the available driver
(see /etc/default/sl-modem-daemon) and run the daemon for the first
available modem(compatbile). If you wish to specify the device manually,
edit the config file.
To use SmartLink modules, create the drivers package using the separate
sl-modem-source package (see its README.Debian for details). Usually,
you can simply run "m-a a-i sl-modem" if module-assistant is installed
on your system.
When done, use "dpkg-reconfigure sl-modem-daemon -plow" to choose your
contry or edit the file /etc/defaults/sl-modem-daemon manually.
To use ALSA modules, make sure that you have a recent kernel (>= 2.6.4) and
the intel8x0m module available. If the driver is not detected by the
init script, edit the file /etc/defaults/sl-modem-daemon script and set
the SLMODEMD_DEVICE to the ALSA conventional device name ('hw:0' or
'hw:1' for instance)
Why is sl-modem-daemon in non-free?
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Because one part of the driver source is not available. Instead, a
precompiled binary object is provided (probably to protect the
Intellectual Property of the vendor). If you don't like it, feel free to
buy a conventional external modem.
-- Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org> -- Fri, 21 May 2004 13:47:06 +0200