modem

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

It would seem I have either already done the hard part, or it has been done 
for me.  But I'm sort of stumped.  I'm trying to use a PCTel winmodem in my 
system, and it works but I just can't get it to work without loading one of 
the drives from command line.

Using Lycoris (the build just before they got rid of the Redmond Linux logos) 
which I found already had the drivers.  For my modem, they are pctel_789.o and 
ptserial_pct789.o.  It doesn't autodetect the modem, so I had to create 
the node in /dev for it, and link /dev/modem to that node.  And "insmod 
pctel_pct789" then "insmod ptserial_pct789" lets me dial the modem.

Then, since this is Caldera-based, I added the driver names to 
/etc/modules/default.  The system reported loading them, but it didn't work.  
Here are the relevant parts of the output of lsmod:

ptserial_pct789        48464   0
pctel_cm8738          547472   0  [ptserial_pct789]
isa-pnp                27440   0  [serial ptserial_pct789]
pctel_pct789          705984   0  [ptserial_pct789 pctel_cm8738]

As I said, it works if I load the drivers from command line.  Again, relevant 
lines from lsmod output:

ptserial_pct789        48448   0  (unused)
pctel_pct789          705984   0  [ptserial_pct789]
isa-pnp                27440   0  (autoclean) [ptserial_pct789 serial]

But it also works if I load pctel_pct789.o in /etc/modules/default, and 
ptserial_pct789.o at command line.  Lsmod shows the same results, but a 
different order:

ptserial_pct789        48448   0  (unused)
isa-pnp                27440   0  (autoclean) [ptserial_pct789 serial]
pctel_pct789          705984   0  [ptserial_pct789]

Can anyone suggest a solution?


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