Intel 536ep Modem Driver Installation

For Knoppix V3.7 Installed to a Hard Drive

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

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. Upon reboot use default Linux at the LiLo menu

Download 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 4 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 5 Set up Dial up Account

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

1. Select “New”

2. Select “Manual Setup”

3. Select “Dial” tab

a. Enter your ISP name under “Connection Name”

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

4. Select “IP” tab

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

5. 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”

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

Credits

None of this would have been possible without the following scripts:

intel536-4.68.tgz refered to downloaded at ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/6497/eng/intel536-4.68.tgz refered to here http://weblog.persianlinux.org/archives/000095.html

Intel536_inst_debian downloaded from http://members.lycos.co.uk/persianlinux/downloads/intel536ep/Intel536_inst_debian referred to here http://weblog.persianlinux.org/2004/05/install-intel-536ep-modem-in-debian.html

Talk about a challenge. I cannot even read most of the website www.persianlinux.org which is in the Persian language.

Future Challenges

Modify this how to for Knoppix 3.8 if the drivers exist. (Knoppix 3.7 was chosen because the script Intel536_inst_debian will work with kernel 2.4 but not 2.6)

http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/bc/42f6dc00_15686/bc/Intel536/Intel536_inst_LiveCD?bfTlC_CBmB9w_8W1

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Troubleshooting tools

Wvdial.conf - dialer

Useage = wvdial

Contents of /etc/wvdial.conf

[Dialer Defaults]

Modem = /dev/modem

Baud = 115200

Init1 = ATZ

Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0

ISDN = 0

Modem Type = Analog Modem

; Phone = <target phone number>

; Username = <your login name>

; Password = <your Pasword>

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