martian-modem for Debian
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The Debian martian-modem support consists in two packages,

 1) martian-modem-source, a linux kernel module.
    
    This package provides a MARS (aka, Martian Modem) kernel module 
     for the linux kernel, prepared to support a debian-friendly 
     compilation way, known as 'module-assistant'.      

 2) martian-modem, a control daemon.
    
    This package provides a MARS (aka, Martian Modem) control daemon,
     fully supporting LSB and Sys-V (also sysv-ng) init scripts, logging,
     non-root users dialing properties, between other features.


The martian-modem-source package can be used in several ways:

 - The module-assistant way [ RECOMMENDED ]
   Using module-assistant(8) ncurses-based GUI, the command-line tool for 
    handling module-source packages that have been prepared for 
    the Debian distribution.

   It helps users to build and install module package(s) easily.
   By executing this, you'll build and install the kernel module:
   	
   # m-a a-i martian-modem

   For a quick reference about how to use this tool, check "auto-install" 
    at COMMANDS section on module-assistant(8) man page.

 - Using the make-kpkg(1) command provided by the kernel-package Debian
   package. This will produce a corresponding martian-modem-modules package for
   the Debian kernel-image package that you are using. 
    See the "modules_image" section of the make-kpkg(1) man page.

 - Changing to the /usr/src/modules/martian-modem/ directory and building as
   the README file instructs using "make; make install". This will build
   and install a module specific to the system you are building on and is
   not under control of the packaging system (Not recommended).

 -- Ulises Vitulli <dererk@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:10:25 -0300
