I am new to linux of course, I bought a Gateway recently and installed Ubuntu 6.06 dapper drake. The only problem I am having so far is the modem, a motorola sm56. I have searched on it but I still cant seem to get it down. So far what I have done; after very little searching I downloaded sl-modem-daemon_2.9.9a-1ubuntu2_i386.deb, where I did:
I was not sure what this really means, except that it is obviously not working...
After more searching I downloaded Scanmodem.gz, did as instructed, which instructed me to download sl-modem-modules-2.6.10-5-386_2.9.9a-1ubuntu2+2.6.10-34_i386.deb, where again I did:
Again, I am not sure what this means. It was also suggested that I could try ndiswrapper, even though it is meant for wireless, so I apt-get it from the ubuntu disk, and installed the windows xp driver for my modem, now when I do ndiswrapper -l it shows that smserial is installed and present but it does not show that the hardware is present. I am still unsure whether this is even a possible choice since I have looked and found nothing about using a modem with ndiswrapper, only wireless. If I can use it through ndiswrapper, how exactly would I do so?
So if you could please tell me what I am doing wrong or steer me in the right direction, as I said I am a new linux user trying to ween myself off of windows, and I know ubuntu is supposed to be a good distro for begginers although I have been reccomended to try Blag. I am starting to learn commands and get a feel for it but its very restricting without having internet access in ubuntu. Hopefully they will have DSL services extended to my area soon, so that I am not stuck with dialup.
Any help is appreciated...
and got this:Code:sudo dpkg -i sl-modem-daemon*
Code:
(Reading database ... 71694 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace sl-modem-daemon 2.9.9a-1ubuntu2 (using sl-modem-daemon_2.9.9a-1ubuntu2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement sl-modem-daemon ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sl-modem-daemon: sl-modem-daemon depends on sl-modem-modules-new | sl-modem-source (>> 2.9.6-1); however: Package sl-modem-modules-new is not installed. Package sl-modem-modules-2.6.10-5-386 which provides sl-modem-modules-new is not configured yet. Package sl-modem-source is not installed. dpkg: error processing sl-modem-daemon (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: sl-modem-daemon
After more searching I downloaded Scanmodem.gz, did as instructed, which instructed me to download sl-modem-modules-2.6.10-5-386_2.9.9a-1ubuntu2+2.6.10-34_i386.deb, where again I did:
which rendered very similar results:Code:sudo dpkg -i sl-modem-module*
Code:
(Reading database ... 71694 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace sl-modem-modules-2.6.10-5-386 2.9.9a-1ubuntu2+2.6.10-34 (using sl-modem-modules-2.6.10-5-386_2.9.9a-1ubuntu2+2.6.10-34_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement sl-modem-modules-2.6.10-5-386 ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sl-modem-modules-2.6.10-5-386: sl-modem-modules-2.6.10-5-386 depends on linux-image-2.6.10-5-386; however: Package linux-image-2.6.10-5-386 is not installed. dpkg: error processing sl-modem-modules-2.6.10-5-386 (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: sl-modem-modules-2.6.10-5-386
Again, I am not sure what this means. It was also suggested that I could try ndiswrapper, even though it is meant for wireless, so I apt-get it from the ubuntu disk, and installed the windows xp driver for my modem, now when I do ndiswrapper -l it shows that smserial is installed and present but it does not show that the hardware is present. I am still unsure whether this is even a possible choice since I have looked and found nothing about using a modem with ndiswrapper, only wireless. If I can use it through ndiswrapper, how exactly would I do so?
So if you could please tell me what I am doing wrong or steer me in the right direction, as I said I am a new linux user trying to ween myself off of windows, and I know ubuntu is supposed to be a good distro for begginers although I have been reccomended to try Blag. I am starting to learn commands and get a feel for it but its very restricting without having internet access in ubuntu. Hopefully they will have DSL services extended to my area soon, so that I am not stuck with dialup.
Any help is appreciated...
