Smartlink Modem in Ubuntu Dapper

Published on July 8, 2006 in Distribution, Hardware and Software. 3 Comments

This week I had installed Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 and tried really hard at making my SmartLink Internal Modem to work in it. It hadn’t worked in any other distro other than Debian Sarge. I started with a 64 bit version of Ubuntu, but it didn’t help. I followed the instructions in Launchpad and configured the modem. So here are the steps that I followed to make my SmartLink modem work in Ubuntu 6.06.

  1. First we need to have a few packages which need to be installed before installing the driver. You need to have build-essential, linux-headers-ARCH (where ARCH is your kernel version and can be found with uname -r in the terminal), fakeroot, module-assistant and debhelper. All these can be installed (with the dependancies) using apt-get.
  2. Then you need to install ungrab-winmodem from the linmodem website. Just extract it and make; make install to install it.
  3. Download slmodem-2.9.11-20051101.tar.gz from http://phep2.technion.ac.il/linmodems/packages/smartlink/
  4. Download sl-modem-daemon_2.9.10+2.9.9d+e-pre2-5build1_i386.deb, but don’t install it yet.
  5. Extract the tar.gz file and type make and then sudo make install in the folder where you extracted it.
  6. Type sudo modprobe slamr
  7. Then install the sl-modem-daemon using dpkg -i sl-modem-daemon_2.9.10+2.9.9d+e-pre2-5build1_i386.deb command.
  8. Type sudo /etc/init.d/sl-modem-daemon restart to restart the daemon.
  9. This ends the installation part of the modem. Now you can setup your internet connection.
  10. I used wvdial and unusually, the modem redialled every time the ISP showed the Login prompt. So, I put in the Stupid Mode = 1 in the /etc/wvdial.conf file.

3 Responses to “Smartlink Modem in Ubuntu Dapper”

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  • Kiddalee
    July 8, 2006 at 9:29 pm

    Well, what if wvdial says there is no valid phone number, login name, or password, even when you’ve edited wvdial.conf to include these?

  • Srinivasan R
    July 9, 2006 at 1:06 am

    I used the command sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf to edit my wvdial.conf file. It automatically detects the modem and asks your ISP username and password and phone number and fills in the rest. If you already have a wvdial.conf file, then I would suggest you rename it before doing wvdialconf.

  • Amit
    December 16, 2006 at 10:39 pm

    I treid as mentioned BUT i do have a problem.xamit@xamit-home:~/Desktop$ cd ungrab-winmodem/
    xamit@xamit-home:~/Desktop/ungrab-winmodem$ make
    make modules -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/build SUBDIRS=/home/xamit/Desktop/ungrab-winmodem
    make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
    make: *** [all] Error 2

    I am not understanding the error occured. Is there any silly mistakes ???? Please Help Back….

    Many thanks in Advance

    Amit

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