SDB:AVM binary driver

tagline: From openSUSE

[edit] Situation

Some of the AVM (Fritz!) devices (http://www.avm.de/de/) are only supported by binary drivers coming from AVM. But these are no longer distributed on the install media.

Background: For different reasons some hardware that was supported out-of-the-box by 10.0 and previous is no longer supported by 10.1. Mostly this is because it has been decided not to ship binary only (closed source) kernel modules - in compliance with the GPL and the wishes of the kernel developers. A new system (KMP, Kernel Module Packages) has been developed to address this issue - but as of yet not many binary only KMPs are available.

[edit] Solution

Linux New Media AG offers AVM drivers for SUSE Linux 10.1 for both 32 as well as 64 bit (x86 and x86-64) on their EasyLinux Starter Kit. They can be downloaded here:

 http://www.easylinux.de/Download/2006/sk11/

For available version 10.1 to latest 12.1 check here

http://foehr-it.de/cms/index.php/support/treiber

Version: 11.2

openSUSE 11.2 Warning

A bug exist in openSUSE 11.2, which doesn't create correct capi20 dev node. capiinfo or capiinit start complain . Add these lines to /etc/init.d/boot.local

# Patch opensuse 11.2 doesn't create capi20 dev
mknod /dev/capi20 c  68 0
chmod 0660 /dev/capi20
chgrp dialout /dev/capi20

Launch this with sudo /etc/init.d/boot.local (be care if you have other instruction here) a capiinit start & capiinfo should now display correct information. (Have your isdn modem already configured, or do so with yast)