The SmartLink modem daemon is the application part of the driver for recent modems produced by Smart Link Ltd. . This package replaces (along with hardware access drivers) the old driver generation (2.7.x) which consisted of kernel modules only. . It needs a kernel driver to access the hardware. This can be either recent ALSA (shipped with a newer kernel (>=2.6.4) with ALSA support and snd-intel8x0m module) which is sufficient for basic operation and data/Internet connection, or the SmartLink kernel driver which is provided by separate packages which you can build using the source from the sl-modem-source package.
