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
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-------------------------- 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 --------
