Intel 536ep Modem Driver Installation

For Knoppix V3.7 Installed to a Hard Drive Then Remastered to a LiveCD!

This HowTo is for installing a Intel 536ep Hardware modem to a Hard Drive installed version of Knoppix 3.7. As much of the installation was done from the KDE desktop as possible but use of the root shell and command line is necessary in some places.

Hardware used in this installation:

Asus P4PE motherboard

Intel Celeron 2.4ghz CPU

1GB PC2100 memory

8gb IDE IBM hard drive

Intel 536ep hardware modem (because it was cheap and the box said it would work with Linux)

Operating System Knoppix V3.7-2004-12-08-en. ,Kernel 2.4.27

Required files:

intel536-4.68.tgz

Intel536_inst_debian

knxhdremaster_en-1.3.sh (do not use knxhdremaster_en-1.4.sh ! )

Install Knoppix 3.7 to your hard drive

1. Install hard drive (8gb or bigger) and boot your Knoppix Live CD

2. Open Konsole at the prompt enter : sudo knoppix-installer

3. If your hard drive was not set up Qparted will launch and you will have to set up your hard drive. I set up 6gb ext3 and 2gb linux swap. Don’t forget to Comit your changes or they wont take effect. Goto step 5

4. From the Knoppix Installation menu select PARTITION and Qparted will launch to set up your hard drive. I used an 8gb hard drive so I set up a 6gb ext3 partition and a 2gb linux swap partition. Select COMMIT Exit the Qparted program and you will be returned to the Knoppix Installation menu

5. From the Knoppix Installation menu select Configure Installation.

6. Select BEGINNER

7. Install to /dev/hda1 6gb (yours will be different)

8. Name = admin (your name)

9. User = admin (your username)

10. User password = test (your password)

11. Administration Password = test (your desired password)

12. Box name = Remaster4 (this was my 4^th attempt use whatever you want)

13. Boot-loader = MBR (Partition not tested)

14. After you finish step 13 you will be returned to the Knoppix Installer menu

15. From the Knoppix installer menu select Start Installation

16. When the installation is complete shutdown and remove the Live CD and reboot.

Copy and Install Files

1. Do the following logged in as “root”. Copy the following files to /usr/src

a. intel536-4.68.tgz

b. Intel536_inst_debian

2. Open a root Konsole (little penguin then root shell)

cd /usr/src

tar –zxvf intel536-4.68.tgz

kwrite /usr/src/Intel536-4.68/Intel536_boot

locate and change: mode = “777”

save and close the root shell

3. Open a root shell to continue. (You can use the root shell opened in step 2 but you will get errors)

cd /usr/src

cp Intel536_inst_debian Intel536-4.68

cd /usr/src/Intel536-4.68

make clean

make 536

chmod 777 Intel536_inst_debian

./Intel536_inst_debian

Close root konsole

4. From Desktop run KPPP

5. If running Kppp from the desktop fails on the modem test open a root shell and type Kppp at the prompt and try again.

Step 3 Test Modem

1. From Kppp GUI select “Configure”

a. From the KPPP configuration GUI Select “Modems” tab

b. Select “New”

c. Select “Device” tab

d. Enter “Intel536” for modem name

e. Modem device = /dev/modem

f. Select “Modem” tab

g. Select “Querry Modem” ( if you did everything right it will querry the modem and give you results)

h. Exit the menus with the “OK” button until you get back to the KPPP configuration GUI

Step 4 Set up Dial up Account

1. From the KPPP configuration GUI Select “Accounts” tab

i. Select “New”

j. Select “Manual Setup”

i. Select “Dial” tab

ii. Enter your ISP name under “Connection Name”

iii. Select “Add” and enter the dial up phone number

k. Select “IP” tab

i. Check the Auto-configure box (ignore the warning)

ii. Exit menus with the “OK” button

Dial up ISP and log in ( that’s what we have been doing all this for! )

1. At the KPPP “Connect to” menu enter your login id and password and click “Connect”

Set up /etc/init.d/modeminit so any user can use KPPP

1. Open root shell

touch /etc/init.d/modeminit

chmod 777 /etc/init.d/modeminit

ln –s /etc/init.d/modeminit /etc/rc5.d/S99local

kwrite /etc/init.d/modeminit

Enter the following script

#! /bin/sh

cd /lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/drivers/char

insmod –f Intel536.o

ln –s /dev/536ep /dev/modem

chmod 777 /dev/modem

1. Save

2. Reboot and test.

Issues – If Kppp fails when logged in as the normal user run Kppp as root.

I want the drivers on a Remastered LiveCD ! !

Make sure that the modem works and you can log in using the steps above before proceeding ! ! !

Making the iso smaller

For some reason the .iso file is too big when the CD is remastered with only the modem driver added. I had to remove some files.

1. Open a root shell

apt-get remove openoffice-de-en manpages-de trans-de-en

apt-get remove enigma bacula-common

apt-get remove emacs21 emacs21-bin-common emacs21-common emacsen-common

Copy remaster script to /usr/src

1. copy the script knxhdremaster_en-1.3.sh to /usr/src (do not use knxhdremaster_en-1.4.sh)

2. close root shell

Running the remaster script

1. Open konsole

2. At the prompt cd /usr/src

3. At the prompt enter ./knxhdremaster_en-1.3.sh

4. The program will ask for your root password

5. I used the “folder on the same partition option”

6. Script will ask you to insert Knoppix 3.7 CD into drive if this is your first remaster.

7. Answer the questions and proceed. (takes 60 minutes on my machine)

8. When the script is finished burn the .iso using the make CD from iso feature of your burner software.

Running the Remastered CD

Unresolved issues – LiveCD will not run the /etc/init.d/modeminit file during boot. I modified my scripts to chmod 777 everything in order to get this to work but without success. If you know how to do this please let me know. That is the only thing preventing the loading the modem driver from being transparent to the user. I also tried bootmisc.sh without success. When a Remaster is made it seems all the rc.local and bootmisc.sh and other scripts are left behind. I created a successful working remaster CD on my 3rd try using this script. Sixteen remasters later to try and get the rc.local or other scripts to load without success.

1. Boot remastered CD normally like the original.

2. Log in using your username and password

3. Open Konsole (the little computer screen thingy at the bottom)

4. At the prompt type: sudo –u root /etc/init.d/modeminit

5. Close Konsole

6. Start Kppp and connect to the internet.

Disclaimer

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