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From: David Chow <davidtl@rcn.com.hk>
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To: Phil Richard Burchill <phil@burchill.net>
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Subject: Re: PCTel 0.8.6 Driver Success with CM8738   
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On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Phil Richard Burchill wrote:

> I have installed this driver and report success.
> Modem: PCTel CM8738
> Distribution: Mandrake 8.0
> Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk (Standard Mandrake 8.0)
>
> Previously I had installed a pctel.o which I obtained from
> an OEM distributor and compiled with it my own ptserial to
> get a working CM8738 under 2.4.x. Doing this was a hack.
> But one which worked!
>
> I did have one problem though.  I configured compiled and
> rmmod(ed) the currently running modules.  Then made the
> install and ismoded the new modules.  Ran up kppp and my
> machine was hung completly not just X. I rebooted my
> machine and all was fine.  So upgraders take
> care!  I suspect the rmmod didn't work properly.
>
> Thanks to everyone who worked on this driver!
> (using it to send this mail)
>
> Phil Burchill
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Good luck to you. I have heard some cases crashs after hangup. I
personnally now developing a motherboard with AMR, testing the pctel
modem. No success at all. I am using the VIA686B chipset. What have you
done on ptserial? I always get unresolved symbols when insmod. Even I
insmod sucessfully with some version of ptserial, I still get "trying to
free IRQ" message. How can you get to success? Would you please help. If I
get to success, I will post the result on my product web site and
distribute it through the driver cd. That is officially supporting pctel
amr modems running on 2.4 kernels. Please help.

regards,

David Chow