modem/portage/rpm catch 22

systemnine · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 2

yes, very new.
i have a US Robotics modem (product id: usr5610b), and it is detected just fine and dandy in redhat. but i dont like redhat, i like gentoo.

gentoo does not detect my modem. 3Com offers a driver, but its in RPM format.

in order to install RPM (so far as i know), i have to use portage, which tells me that it has to satisfy dependancies from the web.

see the problem?

so i got an RPM install package from rpm.org, but in order to make the install, i need to satisfy more--you guessed it--web based dependancies.

help me, i am in hell.
(other than that i love gentoo)

what do i need to do to make this happen??

markfl · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 1:01 pm Post subject:

do a quick emerge -p rpm2targz and look at the web based deps it needs. Reboot to redhat and fetch these deps
emerge rpm2targz

run the rpm through it and you have a plain old tar.gz file
i think you can then extract it and probably go from there
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systemnine · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 2

alright, thankyou very much for your help
unfortunately, i had already tried that approach (rpm2targz), with no luck

however, for anyone who still might be experiencing this problem, my friend ben came over and in a matter of seconds banged some information out on the keyboard than sort of ... ¨jerry-rigged¨ my system together, or something.

he said that the problem was not nesescarily a driver problem, but a device configuration problem (?), which could be explained as kppp has a list of specific devices it can use, and though the modem was installed correctly, had all its drivers ago, its device name was not part of the list. so ben made a symbolic link from /dev/ttyS4 to /dev/modem and set kppp to use /dev/modem

tada! works like a charm, for now. well see lol

thanks for the reply, though.