The /etc/init.d/slmodem file contains a while loop that waits until kernel module is loaded and creates a device in /dev -- see bug #47947 (comment 59) for details. The code waits at most 2.5 seconds (5 cycles, each of them has 'sleep 0.5' in it), then reports failure. On my system (which is not particularly slow - a 1.4GHz Celeron-M; 2.6.9 kernel and udev), it is far too small amount of time, it takes _at least_ five seconds for this module to become ready. Can the timeout in loadsmodule function please be increased to at least ${COUNT} -lt 15 (in place of current 5)? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
r2 commited with this trivial change. I've increased timeout to 10 secs (${COUNT} -lt 20)
