Tchinga
1-Your modem is fully hardware, no specific driver neeeded.
It is supported by the standard Linux serial driver.
Please use wvdial (http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/wvdial.html), it will
detect your modem and allow connection.
it has good debugging messages.
When the connection will work you may prefer to use kppp or the like.
Re your question about eth:
When data is sent to a network the computer needs to know where to send
it to, in particular the first computer which will transmit further.
Using the Ethernet (eth) route and the modem (ppp) route at the same
time is not possible. Also the remote computers which know how to
convert symbolic addresses to numeric and vice versa are usually not the
same.
So, to you use your modem, you just need to STOP your Ethernet link if
you have one active. You do that with the Network configuration tool
located somewhere with other system settings.
Of course, if you have no Ethernet link active, not to say no Ethernet
card, you need not worry about this issue.
Jacques
Tchinga Ndalama wrote:
I loaded linux on a fairly old computer. I would like
to set up the PCI modem for internet. But I do not
know how to load drivers etc.
The "YourSystem.txt" document contained information
indicating that the presence of an ethernet card may
create problems when trying to access the internet
using the modem. I would like to know exactly what to
do to prevent this problem.
Attached is a "ModemData.txt" file output from
scanModem.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
hupernikomen
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-------------------------- System information ----------------------------
CPU=i686, Ubuntu 6.10
Linux version 2.6.17-11-generic (root@terranova) (gcc version 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)) #2 SMP Thu Feb 1 19:52:28 UTC 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.17-11.35-generic)
scanModem update of: 2007_March_15
USB modem not detected by lsusb
Modem or host audio card candidates have firmware information:
PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name
---------- --------- --------- --------------
00:0e.0 12b9:1008 12b9:00ad Serial controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division 56K FaxModem Model 5610
Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
11: 723547 XT-PIC uhci_hcd:usb1, Ensoniq AudioPCI, eth0, mga@pci:0000:01:00.0
--- Bootup diagnositcs for card in PCI slot 00:0e.0 ----
[ 21.296857] PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0e.0
[ 21.297078] 0000:00:0e.0: ttyS2 at I/O 0x1470 (irq = 11) is a 16550A
=== Finished modem firmware and bootup diagnostics section. ===
=== Next deducing cogent software ===
For candidate modem in PCI bus: 00:0e.0
Class 0700: 12b9:1008 Serial controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division 56K FaxModem Model 5610
Primary PCI_id 12b9:1008
Support type needed or chipset: USrobotics.serial
Vendor 10b7 3COM Inc. purchased the vendor 12b9 US Robotics modem technology.
Their winmodems have no Linux support. Their controller chipset modems
are supported by the Linux serial drivers.
The PCI id 12b9:1008 modem is Supported.
PCI ID Name Support status
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10b7:1006 3COM 0038TA AC101 - TF Mini-PCI winmodem, not supported
10b7:1007 3COM 3C556 V.90 Mini-PCI winmodem, not supported
12b9:1006 US Robotics 3cp803598 Voice winmodem, not supported
12b9:1007 US Robotics ERL3263A-0 DF GWPCI PC99 winmodem, not supported
12b9:0062 US Robotics erk41926a-0.6 usr 56k serial driver supported
12b9:1008 US Robotics 3cp803598 serial driver supported
sudo wvdialconf wvtest , should detect the modem. Read Testing.txt
====== end 3COM section =======
Completed candidate modem analyses.
The base of the UDEV device file system is: /dev/.udev
Versions adequately match for the compiler installed: 4.1.2
and the compiler used in kernel assembly: 4.1.2
Compiling resources appear complete:
make utility - /usr/bin/make
Compiler version 4.1
kernel_headers base folder /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/build
Checking pppd properties:
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 260920 2006-07-10 15:13 /usr/sbin/pppd
In case of an "error 17" "serial loopback" problem, see:
http://phep2.technion.ac.il/linmodems/archive-sixth/msg02637.html
To enable dialout without Root permission do:
$ su - root (not for Ubuntu)
sudo chmod a+x /usr/sbin/pppd
or under Ubuntu related Linuxes
sudo chmod a+x /usr/sbin/pppd
Checking settings of: /etc/ppp/options
asyncmap 0
auth
crtscts
lock
hide-password
modem
proxyarp
lcp-echo-interval 30
lcp-echo-failure 4
noipx
In case of a message like:
Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission denied
see http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-sixth/msg04656.html
Read Modem/YourSystem.txt concerning other COMM channels: eth0
Which can interfere with Browser naviagation.
Don't worry about the following, it is for the experts
should trouble shooting be necessary.
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Checking for modem support lines:
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/device/modem symbolic link:
slmodemd created symbolic link /dev/ttySL0:
Within /etc/udev/ files:
/etc/udev/rules.d/60-symlinks.rules:# Create /dev/modem symlink
/etc/udev/rules.d/60-symlinks.rules:KERNEL=="ttyLTM[0-9]*", SYMLINK+="modem"
Within /etc/modprobe.conf files:
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base:options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base:options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-modem:# Uncomment these entries in order to blacklist unwanted modem drivers
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-modem:# blacklist snd-atiixp-modem
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-modem:# blacklist snd-via82xx-modem
Within any ancient /etc/devfs files:
Within ancient kernel 2.4.n /etc/module.conf files:
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