I did it just using these instruction and using DSL 4.4.10 finally beginning hylafax installed.

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I am still getting errors but there is improvement using apt-get and dpkg.

By the way I noticed in DSL lsmod returns ltserial for the modem.
Is there a package regarding ltserial in Antix. Maybe slmodem and Martian are not for this modem in Debian.
Although puppy linux is using Martian modem for this modem, it is probably not based on Debian...

Debian has packages for martian-modem & martian-modem-source.

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(Half way down the page.)

I can update , get , build and install all martian packages using apt , synaptics , module assistant.

The problem is after the install antix does not recognize the modem.
The drive is not being loaded. Modprobe and insmod does not see martian_dev module.

I am not advanced linux user, therefore I do not understand what more I can do.

From my understanding of *_dev packages, they are used to build software.
If you have built a binary, I think you will then need to 'install' it.
The only way I know to do that is with dpkg, If it is a kernel 'module' you can 'modprobe' it.
If it is 'firmware', it needs to go into the /lib/firmware directory.

(All the above have to be done as 'root' or using 'sudo'.)

Edit: A look on this site may help.

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This may also give you an idea, from 3) down, to disregard 'rpm' specifics.

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Thanks for the replies.
I solved it by compiling and installing the kernel manually.

Even though I was seeing martian_dev.o in the folders in /lib/modules modprobe never could find the martian_dev.

I looked through folders and found the /usr/src folder in which there was martian-modem files extracted.
I thought compiling manually and just used make and make install.
Then the martian_dev got installed and I could modprobe it.

I am surprised and dissapointed that how many times I reinstalled the antix , updated apt-get , synaptics, module-assistant.
None of them did this completely. In the end I had to manually compile and install the martian_dev kernel module.

I hope this gets fixed and saves many users like me spending days and hours.

Thanks all for trying helping,
Burak

Good to hear you got it working.

I'm glad you were able to solve your problem.

That's one good thing about linux. You can usually find someone else's problem and use it it help yourself.