/etc/modules.d is long deprecated. Please provide an equivalent /etc/modprobe.d file instead.
It seems fixed to me: $ emerge -pv slmodem These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-dialup/slmodem-2.9.11_pre20080126-r1 USE="alsa usb" 0 kB $ ls /etc/modprobe.d/slmodem /etc/modprobe.d/slmodem
Fixed in slmodem-2.9.11-20080401.