It would be nice to add smartlink modem support for 2.6 kernels. Currently emergeing net-dialup/slmodem-2.7.14 on 2.6 system fails. The smartlink ftp seems to have beta versions which work with 2,6 series of kernels and it's just a simple version bump.
After briefly playing around with v.2.9.5 of the smartmodem driver from their website, it's not just a simple version bump - they've rewritten how they build and install. It wants to run 'make modules' in the kernel directory itself, causing portage to fail with a sandbox error - not sure how to deal with that. If someone wants to take a whack, I thinkthat src_compile() should look something like: src_compile() { unset ARCH ## used by the Makefiles - fails if set by portage make -j1 KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux || die } (I was having some weirdness w/ emake & MAKEOPTS, but that may not be necessary in the final ebuild). The ARCH thing stumped me for awhile, but I think that's the right thing to do.
*** Bug 40020 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
First: we don't have a good method of building kernel modules for 2.6 at present, see bug #32737. Second: check out my ebuilds at http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/overlay/net-dialup/slmodem/ for some initial work that may or may not work -- the 2.9 series itself hasn't worked for either me or latexer. Third: remember to search before filing bugs =) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 34399 ***
