DO use the following line as the email Subject Line, to alert cogent experts: scanModem, Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) Kernel kernel 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 Occassionally reponses are blocked by an Internet Provider mail filters. So do in a day also check the Archived responses at DISCUSS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Code updated on: 2005_Dec_26 ------------ -------------- System information ------------------------ Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) Kernel on System with processor: i686 currently under kernel: 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 USB modem not detected. The kernel was assembled with compiler: 4.1.1 with current System compiler GCC=4.1.1 Modem candidates are at PCI_buses: 01:01.0 Providing detail for device at 01:01.0 with vendor-ID:device-ID ----:---- Class 0703: 2000:2800 Modem: Smart Link Ltd. Unknown device 2800 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Generic]) SubSystem 163c:2800 Smart Link Ltd. Unknown device 2800 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 169 Checking for IRQ 169 sharing with modem. -----PCI_IDs------- --CompilerVer- Feature List: Primary Subsystem Distr KernelVer kernel default CPU ./scanModem test 2000:2800 163c:2800 redhat 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 4.1.1 4.1.1 i686 The SmartLink slamr driver supports this modem: 2000:2800 Gateway SL2800 complemented by the SmartLink slmodemd. == Checking PCI IDs through modem chip suppliers == SmartLink at http://www.smlink.com/ owns vendor IDs 163c, 2000, 2003, and 2004 The official download site is: http://www.smlink.com/main/index1.php?ln=en&main_id=40 , with slmodem-2.9.10 and later releases only licensed for Smartlink chipsets. A series maintaining a much broader license for other chipset support, can be downloaded from http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/ Though not always needed, download the files: slmodem-CurrentVersion.tar.gz - provides the most general code package. slmodemd-CurrentVersion.tar.gz - provides a compiled slmodemd ungrab-winmodem.tar.gz - may be needed for usage with slamr. Details on their usage are in Slmodem.txt, Slmodem-ALSA.txt and http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/slmodem-serial.html ======= PCI_ID checking completed ====== Update=2005_Dec_26 A PCMCIA CardBus is not detected on this System. The kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 was compiled with CONFIG_REGPARM, providing more compact and faster code. Adequate match of gcc versions of the compiler and kernel. Checking for kernel-headers needed for compiling. Checking /usr/src/ for compressed compressed headers or kernel-source Kernel-header resources needed for compiling are not manifestly ready! If compressed resources are present, expand and then configure them following DriverCompiling.txt They may have to be installed. Within your Linux distributions' installation CD or online resource (and mirrows), search for : Distribution PackageName OnLine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian kernel-headers-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages or install CD Ubuntu linux-headers-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 http://http://packages.ubuntu.com/ or install CD Xandros kernel-kbuild-3.6 are additionally required by Debian, Ubuntu and Xandros Mandrake kernel-source-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 If not present on install CDs search http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/mandrake/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/mandrake/official/LByName.html, or other mirrors. SuSE kernel-source-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 , kernels are named k_deflt FedoraCore4 kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 or kernel-smp-devel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 on install CD1 or CD4 One of which must be installed if compiling drivers to match kernel 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 proves necessary. Within the output Modem/ folder, read CompilingDrivers.txt for details. A /dev/modem symbolic link is not set. For information on modem port creation under the UDEV device file system see: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fourth/msg03299.html for Conexnant modems http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fifth/msg01177.html for Lucent/Agere DSP modems The following information blocks just query some ppp support items. ==================================================== grep -rs ppp /etc/modprobe.* ------------------------------------- /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf.dist:alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf.dist:alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf.dist:alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf.dist:install ppp-compress-21 /bin/true /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf.dist:alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf.dist:alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate ------------------------------------- PPP support module bsd_comp.ko not found! Resident PPP support modules are properly uncompressed . COMM services are not active Be sure to read the section about ppp related modules and aliases in Modem/YourModem.txt DEVPPP=crw------- 1 root root 108, 0 Dec 25 18:14 /dev/ppp A /dev/modem symbolic link is not present No devfsd.conf file found, indicated absense of the devfsd daemon package for device file system (devfs) symbolic link support. DEVFSD= ---- dmesg queries ------- ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] dfl dfl lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] dfl dfl lint[0x1]) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. IO window: disabled. MEM window: disabled. apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:01:01.0 disabled ibm_acpi: ec object not found pppd version 2.4.2 may not be fully compatible with 2.6.8 kernel releases. If an initial CONNECT is achieved without PPP being subsequently established, drop back to a 2.4.1 version. This has worked for PCTEL AMR modem users, supported by the http://www.smlink.com slmodem software. Check pppd version with: pppd --version See http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fourth/msg03167.html For kernel-version 2.4.20-8 , a failure in automatic loading of PPP related modules has been reported. It was necessary to manually load with: /sbin/modprobe /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/net ppp_generic /sbin/modprobe /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/net ppp_deflate /sbin/modprobe /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/net ppp_synctty /sbin/modprobe /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/net ppp_async or dialout efforts failed. The Internet Configuration Wizard writes a configuration file: /etc/ wvdial.conf containing a line default line Stupid Mode = yes Better dialup performance may be achieved by commenting out this line as: # Stupid Mode = yes If the Smartlink slmodemd is used for port creation, an added line is necessary Carrier Check = no Also non-USA Users may need to add to the [Modem0] block: Init2 = AT+GCI=hexadecimal_country_code but test without it first. redhat is not yet providing pre-compiled drivers for WinModems Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php