Hello, I would appreciate any help you could offer in obtaining drivers for my BCM V92 .... I believe I have BCM4212 chipset as I've downloaded and run scanModem and that's about as far as I'm comfortable with doing. Attached is ModemData.txt ..... I sure would appreciate pointers to get the rest of the process underway .... My OS is Ubuntu 7.04 Thanks Jim
Only plain text email is forwarded by the DISCUSS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx List Server. Do use the following as the email Subject Line: SomeName, YourCountry Ubuntu 7.04 kernel 2.6.20-15-generic This will alert cogent experts, and distinguish cases in the Archives. YourCountry will enable Country Code guidance. Occassionally responses are blocked by an Internet Provider mail filters. So in a day, also check the Archived responses at http://www.linmodems.org . Local Linux experts can be found through: http://www.linux.org/groups/index.html -------------------------- System information ---------------------------- CPU=i686, Ubuntu 7.04 Linux version 2.6.20-15-generic (root@palmer) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)) #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 scanModem update of: 2007_May_11 ALSAversion 1.0.13 USB modem not detected by lsusb Modem or host audio card candidates have firmware information: PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name ---------- --------- --------- -------------- 02:08.0 14e4:4212 1028:0002 Modem: Broadcom Corporation BCM4212 v.90 56k modem Modem interrupt assignment and sharing: 16: 7075 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb4 --- Bootup diagnositcs for card in PCI slot 02:08.0 ---- [ 32.019797] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 === Finished modem firmware and bootup diagnostics section. === === Next deducing cogent software === For candidate modem in PCI bus: 02:08.0 Class 0703: 14e4:4212 Modem: Broadcom Corporation BCM4212 v.90 56k modem Primary PCI_id 14e4:4212 Support type needed or chipset: Broadcom Under Linux 2.6.n kernels, the chipset is NOT SUPPORTED . Read InfoGeneral.txt about alternatives. Vendor 14e4 is Broadcom http://www.broadcom.com/ , now focusing on broadband tools. 14e4:4212 is the PCI id of a BCM V.90 56k modem There is no support under 2.6.n kernels for the 14e4:4212 modems. There is a driver for 2.2.n kernels called BCOM_WAN_V20. Search for it at http://www.dell.com However the code has not been updated for some time. For 2.4 kernels, a fix by Giacomo Comes must be used. See : http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-third/msg01652.html http://cengique.2y.net/~cengiz/BCMSM/ There are BCM Subsystems 14e4:4d64 serving under Intel ICH series softmodem controllers. which are supported. Their AC97 codecs are BCM64 or SIL24. Kernels of version 2.6.6 or later are necessary. See success reports: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fifth/msg02486.html http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fourth/msg03690.html http://oboc.ucdavis.edu/Marik/inspiron/ The support is typically achieved through the snd-intel8x0m driver, plus slmodemd helper. ====== end Broadcom 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 Kernel-header resources needed for compiling are not manifestly ready! If compiling is necessary packages must be installed, providing: linux-headers-2.6.20-15-generic Checking pppd properties: -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 269224 2007-04-05 00:41 /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 noauth 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 Don't worry about the following, it is for the experts should trouble shooting be necessary. ========================================================== Checking for modem support lines: -------------------------------------- /device/modem symbolic link: slmodemd created symbolic link /dev/ttySL0: Within /etc/udev/ files: Within /etc/modprobe.conf files: /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 /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base:options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2 /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base:options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2 Within any ancient /etc/devfs files: Within ancient kernel 2.4.n /etc/module.conf files: --------- end modem support lines --------