I thought a ext. USR modem would work, umm NO.

[AD6XS]

I have tried that. I have deleted all the files and done it from a fresh standpoint.

[root@localhost irqtune]#  ls -l /usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune
-rwxr-xr-x  1 109 USER 18329 Oct 16  1997 /usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune*
[root@localhost irqtune]# make install
(cd /usr/local/irqtune/sbin ; make -f /usr/local/irqtune/src/Makefile CDEBUG='' CFLAGS_EXTRA='' IRQTUNE_HOME=/usr/local/irqtune IRQTUNE_VERSION=0.6 INSTALL=simple INSTALLER=/usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune SBIN=/sbin install)
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/irqtune/sbin'
/usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune -i simple /sbin /usr/local/irqtune
make[1]: /usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune: Command not found
make[1]: *** [install] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/irqtune/sbin'
make: *** [install] Error 2
[root@localhost irqtune]#

[AD6XS]

In the readme it states that irqtune was last updated in 1997. I wonder if this has something do with this.

Problem is if there is no way to properly compile it, then I am at a loss as to how to fix this serial modem. Currently it always connects at 14.4kbps. And on the same computer and same modem in windows it does 49k. I mean, linux really doesn't like something here.

Should I switch back to MDK 10.1? I've had trouble compiling my winmodem driver on this kernel (2.6.8.11), and that is the reason I bought this USR 5686E. But now it seems to me that this is coming right back to haunt me (can never compile anything).

-Frustrated.

[Santa's little helper]

In the readme it states that irqtune was last updated in 1997. I wonder if this has something do with this.

Your problem is very puzzling.The file is there yet the system says it
can't find it.
Two more things to try and let us know the output for each:
1) file /usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune

2) /usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune -i simple /sbin /usr/local/irqtune

[AD6XS]

[root@localhost local]# file /usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune
/usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

I think the second item wasn't correct.

[root@localhost local]# /usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune -i simple /sbin/usr/local/irqtune
bash: /usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune: No such file or directory
[root@localhost /]#       
[root@localhost /]# cd /usr/local/irqtune -i simple /sbin/usr/local/irqtune
[root@localhost irqtune]#

[Santa's little helper]

Type ls /lib/ld*
This should give you some file named like /lib/ld-2.1.1.so
The numbers may be different but the name should be like this.
So now type /lib/ld-2.1.1.so /usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune where
you should replace the /lib/ld-2.1.1.so part by the name it has on your system.

[AD6XS]

Failed, no such file (libc.so.r5). Have no idea what this means... I have the wrong libraries?

[USER@localhost Desktop]$ ls /lib/ld*
/lib/ld-2.3.4.so*  /lib/ld-linux.so.2@
[root@localhost Desktop]# /lib/ld-2.3.4.so /usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune
/usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[AD6XS]

Does this help?

[root@localhost Desktop]#  ls /usr/local/irqtune/bin
install*
[root@localhost Desktop]# ls -l /usr/local/irqtune/sbin
total 68
-rwxr-xr-x  1 109 sam 18329 Oct 16  1997 irqtune*
-rw-r--r--  1 109 sam  2313 Oct 16  1997 irqtune_mod.o
-rw-r--r--  1 109 sam  2301 Oct 16  1997 irqtune_npr.o
-rw-r--r--  1 109 sam 21348 Oct 16  1997 irqtune.o
-rw-r--r--  1 109 sam    33 Oct 16  1997 kvers.c
-rw-r--r--  1 109 sam   703 Oct 16  1997 kvers.o
-rw-r--r--  1 109 sam  2232 Oct 16  1997 load_mod.o
-rw-r--r--  1 109 sam  2220 Oct 16  1997 load_npr.o