don't ask me why but yesterday & today I played with the modem on
nerys (my thinkpad R60e). it's a conexant hsf softmodem or
something like that, & it didn't really work with sl-modem-daemon which
was installed but not activated.
in the end it was not that difficult: I grabbed
hsfmodem-7.60.00.09full.tar.gz from the
linuxant
download page, detected the
debdist target in their makefile,
& after some swearing & fixing errors I got a
.deb
(no, I don't really know if it's different from the .deb offered
there).
when installing the
.deb a kernel module is built (so
kernel-headers & stuff are necessary but they are here anyway). one
reboot (hello?) later the module works.
wvdial didn't like me but
pppconfig/pon/poff worked (with an old account from
technix.at).
no, I still don't know why I would actually need
/dev/modem on my laptop :)
