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Rakesh Gupta

I have recently got the SAM300TMAX ADSL2+ MODEM installed on my system. My computer has dual boot option for both Windows XP as well as Ubuntu 9.04 Linux OS.

The modem is working fine in Windows XP after installing the USB driver from the CD provided by MTNL. I connect my computer to the modem using the USB port since there is no network ethernet port on my system.

However, the UBUNTU linux does not recognize the modem through the USB port although the manual says that it would. I tried to install the Linux driver provide in the CD. However, I could not compile the source code and install it. It gives an error while compiling.

Please help. Where can I find the suitable Linux driver for this modem along with installation package?

superprash2003

post output of ifconfig from the terminal . what error do you get when compiling the drivers?

Rakesh Gupta

The readme file in the Linux Driver on Cd gives the following instructions:

3. Installation

3.1 Installation from source code

Note: Do not plug and power on CPE before installing the driver;

All operations in this section needs root's privilege.

tar zxvf trendchip-1.2.tar.gz

cd trendchip-1.2

make

make install

When I followed these instructions and extracted the files using tar and then after going to trendchip-1.2 directory and then issued the make command (sudo make), the source could not be compiled. it gives error 1. The detailed printout of the system on issuing the command is as follows:

sudo make
[sudo] password for rakesh:
gcc -Wall -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -I/usr/src/linux-2.6.28-11-generic/include -O -g -I.. -c -o trendchip.o trendchip.c
trendchip.c24: error: linux/slab.h: No such file or directory
trendchip.c24: error: linux/init.h: No such file or directory
trendchip.c25: error: linux/delay.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/include/linux/socket.h:23,
from /usr/include/linux/if.h:23,
from /usr/include/linux/netdevice.h:28,
from trendchip.c
/usr/include/linux/uio.h error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, make: *** [trendchip.o] Error 1

Luke Skywalker

Can you upload your files given by MTNL to site like mediafire .I will try able to compile them & upload the binary.For this your ubuntu should be i386(32 bit) as mine is also this & amd or intel.

According to me MTNL is totally dumb if they cant give their customer binary file or packages like deb,rpm,pkg,blah,blah,blah.I am making them since I started using computer.I use config.,make install.for using software which I install from svn.I use Free BSD & Ubuntu( its for my family as its quite easy to use).

You can also try copying(not cutting) files from /usr/src/linux-2.6.28-11-generic/include/linux to /usr/include/linux skipfiles you already have (.as I see you have header install otherwise this line must have given error gcc -Wall -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -I/usr/src/linux-2.6.28-11-generic/include -O -g -I.. -c -o trendchip.o trendchip.c.)