On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Lane Hill wrote:
I bought a Creative ModemBlaster USB DE5671 recently, due to me getting troubles with getting a working modem for Fedora 4 (so far I've tried 5 different ones, and this is the first external I tried). Of course, Fedora doesn't recognize it offhand, so I did some research. It uses a chipset that's in the same Family as the SmartLink SmartUSB56 (or something or another). The greater news is that SmartLink has a driver available! So, first I tried to make an rpm out of the tar.gz file. According to the terminal, rpm -ta is not a real command, although that's what the readme says to type.
The readme is rather dated on this point. The command is "rpmbuild -ta ..." (and has been for a while now).
Getting this right won't help with your compilation problem, though. You don't say what version of slmodem you are working with.
[...] So, I'm completely lost, confused and a bit pissed off due to the fact that all I want to do is use this computer (I'm using my mom's currently) for school, yet I have to live with crappy 56k, and that no modem I've tried worked successfully with Fedora. All I'm asking is this: Can someone pinpoint to me a good RPM to use for this modem, or can someone recommend a good modem (internal or external) that can work flawlessly or near flawlessly with Fedora?
There is an slmodem-alsa-2.9.9d-0.lvn.1.4 RPM at rpm.livna.org. I haven't tried to really make it work, however.
Almost any external modem or hardware modem will work. There are plenty of recommendations in the list archives.
-- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
