no eagle-usb modem drivers in gentoo sources 2.6.15 [solved]

-fenice- · n00b Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 51 Location: Limoges

Hi there.

I do use a Sagem f@st 800 usb modem to connect my station to the net. Until now, I've been using the eagle-usb which worked nearly fine (I am often forced to reboot the pc several times because of the modem not synchronising).

I read on the eagle-usb website that they develloped a new driver, and that this driver was included in the 2.6.15 kernel. And what? Some days ago, this kernel became stable on gentoo!

But when I go in the Device Drivers-> Usb -> DSL modems, no eagle dsl modem... Here are my choices :

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Press "/", search for ADI, and see what its dependencies are - you've probably disabled a dependency, so it isn't shown as an option.

-fenice- · n00b Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 51 Location: Limoges

Thanks : I didn't know this feature... It could help in the future, but nothing... I'm going to check vanilla-sources to see if this driver was really included in 2.6.15 or not...

But even if I find it in vanilla-sources, I'd rather keep my gentoo-sources (I've become attached to the genpatches

).

-fenice- · n00b Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 51 Location: Limoges

I gave a quick look to vanilla-sources and find nothing (even using the search tool)... May be the eagle-usb team announced a little too quickly the intergration of their driver into the 2.6.15 kernel...

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

It's not built into the kernel, it's an add-on. Links help :wink:

-fenice- · n00b Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 51 Location: Limoges

Exact! I should have read more carefully the docs : I believed that thoses instruction were still for <= 2.6.14 kernels since they were saying that we have to patch the kernel... So still no drivers without applying mm patches : god I hate thoses USB modems! :lol:

Thanks for all !

dsd · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:35 pm Post subject:

the driver is included in the kernel as of 2.6.16-rc1 onwards
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-fenice- · n00b Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 51 Location: Limoges

Great news! Thanks, I will look forward to this kernel

jerrykenny · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 105

FOUND IT !!!

its in

device drivers
USB support
USB network adapters

Now lets see if it works . . . . .
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totencham · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:19 am Post subject:

jerrykenny · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 105

Sorry, but I'm going through one of my "Debian" phases now . . . . I've wiped my Gentoo partitions . . .
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totencham · Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:30 am Post subject:

-fenice- · n00b Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 51 Location: Limoges

I tried it, but with no result for the moment : I appears that the part included in the kernel is not enough to get the thing working... When I boot, the modem does'nt try to synchronize... I'll keep working on that...

-fenice- · n00b Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 51 Location: Limoges

Nope : I can't get 2.6.16 kernel working : when I boot it, the Init crashes just after setting terminal encoding to utf-8. I checked my kernel configuration concerning encoding in case of, but it the same as my 2.6.15 which works well... I will look at this, but not before a moment.

edit : I found what the problem is and created a new topic concernig this driver... go to https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-456381.html