Comment 23 for bug 375148

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 02:18:39AM -0000, seasoned_geek wrote:
> This appears to be busted pretty bad in Karmic Koala.
>
> I followed the instructions from here. I had both a /dev/ttySL0 and
> /dev/modem. wvdial was able to communicate with modem, but was always
> getting NO CARRIER which I now see is bug 237773. Since I was stupid
> and didn't check for that bug before rebooting, I now no longer have a
> /dev/ttySL0. (i.e. this bug.)
>
> Is there some faint hope of actually getting this fixed in the Karmic
> build tree? Judging from these messages it looks like the thing only
> works on one machine in the world. I don't need to receive faxes, but I
> do have to send some. I'm trying my SmartLink modem because the
> Intel536EP package will no longer build under Karmic, "owner" got
> dropped from a structure in favor of UID and GID.
>
> This really needs to be fixed in Karmic.
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Please try sl-modem 2.9.11~20090222-2~5.gbpb41b1b from my PPA [1]
In this package I've re-enabled udev support.

[1] http://launchpad.net/~aelmahmoudy/+archive/ppa

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