solution - getting a dial-up modem on a PowerMacs to work

[Justin Kelly]

Hi All

As some of you will know I've been trying for a while now to get my
dial-up modem working on Fedora 4 test 2 and CentOS 4 beta 2.

I finally have some good news :)

On Cent and Fedora PPC i had exactly the same issue, my modem wasn't
being detected, in wvdial I was getting input/output errors
(http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=52183)

my solution - install the latest yellowdog kernel on centos-ppc/fedora

I downloaded the latest ydl kernel (2.6.10-1.ydl.1) from
http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-4.0/ppc/,
installed it. modified /etc/yaboot.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf(see
below) and now dial-up and sound work perfect :)

Im sure this is not everyones preferred method, but it works.

this solution is working for me on centos-ppc, i tried this method on
fedora4test2 but had issues as the installed kernel is newer than the
ydl one, but im sure it'll probably work on fedora 3
> From what i cant see of the ydl kernel the only main difference when

it comes to modems it that it has Macserial compiled in the kernel by
default where as fedora doesn't.  If possible I would suggest this be
compiled in the fedora kernel as well, im no kernel expert, i just
wont dial-up to 'just work'.

Now i just gotta get X working all nice and i'll be very happy.

hint: if anyone else tries this remeber use rpm -ivh and not rpm -uvh
to install the kernel, took me a few re-installs for me to learn this
lesson :)

Cheers

Justin Kelly

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/etc/modprobe.conf
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alias eth0 sungem
alias usb-controller ohci-hcd

#ALSA portion
alias char-major-116* snd
alias snd-card-0 snd_powermac

#OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14* soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

install snd-card-0 /sbin/modprobe ~@~Signore-install snd-card-0 && {
/usr/sbin/aslsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
remove snd-card-0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; };
/sbin/modprobe -r ~@~Signore-remove
install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modporbe ~@~Signore-install sound-slot-0 &&
{ /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 22>&1 || :; }
remove sound-slot-0 { /sbin/modprobe -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >>/dev/null
2>&1 || :; }; /sbin/modprobe -r ~@~Signore-remove ~