11.0 smartlink driver

dr1445 · February 14, 2009, 12:05am

greetings,
i am working on a sony notebook with an onboard dialup modem that uses a sml driver. when i try to config the modem via yast it tries to download the driver but fails. i have found sml-2.7.8.tar.gz. will that work 11.0?

deano_ferrari · February 14, 2009, 7:11am

You can check out likely drivers for your modem with scanModem utility from here.

FYI, There is a smartlink-softmodem package available for openSUSE 11. Use yast software manager to install if required.

You then need to use yast > network devices > modem to configure.

I can’t offer much more support than that already given.

dr1445 · February 14, 2009, 2:01pm

yes i tried yast>software but a search for smartlink or sml got zero results for the modem driver. do you know which repository it is stored in or is it listed by another name. i also tried pbone rpm with no luck. for sure i would like to install via yast if feasible.

julian5 · February 14, 2009, 4:08pm

You should visit your manufacturer web site and try if they have any SUSE driver for this product.

dr1445 · February 14, 2009, 4:50pm

the doors and windows are boarded up at smartlink, they have have gone a few years now.

ken_yap · February 15, 2009, 1:27am

It looks like this question has come up before, and it is on the DVD but can’t be found on any repo run by opensuse:

OpenSUSE 11.0 & softmodem - openSUSE Forums

Here is the Novell page that describes it:

Novell: openSUSE 11.0: smartlink-softmodem

but no usable download link. Somebody should file a bug report asking which repo it was put in.

Fortunately, searching on the exact RPM name found a repository (presumably an mirror of the DVD contents) here:

Index of /pub/linux/S.u.S.E./11.0/suse/i586

dr1445 · February 15, 2009, 3:26am

thanks for digging that source out, it is now installed.

buzlite · March 27, 2009, 3:14am

I’m using opensuse 11.1 and I’m having a similar problem with locating smartlink-softmodem. Is there an equivalent for opensuse 11.1

ken_yap · March 27, 2009, 4:09am

Unfortunately I don’t see it on the 11.1 DVD. Have you tried searching at software.opensuse.org to see if it’s in any of the third-party repos? If not maybe you could fetch the source RPM from the website mentioned in my last post and rebuild for 11.1. Don’t know if you would have any issues with the binary blobs in the package, and whether it would work with current kernels. You’d just have to try it and see.