Quote Originally Posted by Marvin Stodolsky
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2. ltmodem fix) The ltmodem compile sanely aborts when a compile is attempted, because of the gcc problem. Being co-maintainer of the ltmodem package, I knew who to do a modification of the Makefile, to specify usage of the required gcc-2.95. Then the driver compile went to completion.
I have successfully got the ltmodem (8.26) to work by editing the autoload script to not do the gcc check. Of course this is not really the proper way to do it but it has worked OK for Knoppix 3.1, 3.2 3.3 & 3.4.