Hi Marvin, I, for one, wasn't able to determine which the proper modem device name was by myself. If I didn't miss anything, maybe you could add an entry to the FAQs. Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > Thanks for the report. > Would you please write a clear description of the problem and the fix. > Send it to the List where it will acquire a URL in the archives, > which I'll code to display from scanModem > on Systems using snd-trident drivers. There were two, probably independent, problems: 1.) On Ubuntu-systems, 7.04 kernel 2.6.20-15-generic and 2.6.20-16-generic, the packages sl-modem-daemon 2.9.10+2.9.9d+e-pre2-5ubuntu1 sl-modem-source 2.9.10+2.9.9d+e-pre2-5ubuntu1** do not work. Reference: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sl-modem/+bug/92777 Fix: As described in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sl-modem/+bug/92777/comments/9 - Install slmodem-2.9.11-20070505 from http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/slmodem-2.9.11-20070505.tar.gz and sl-modem-daemon 2.9.10+2.9.9d+e-pre2-5ubuntu1 from the ubuntu feisty repository. - Edit /etc/default/sl-modem-daemon SLMODEMD_COUNTRY=[YOUR_COUNTRY] SLMODEMD_DEVICE=[your_modem_device_name] by replacing [YOUR_COUNTRY] and [device_name] adequately. - Can't say if it's generally needed, but I had to replace /usr/sbin/slmodemd with the precompiled slmodemd from SLMODEMD-1.0.13.tar.gz http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/SLMODEMD-1.0.13.tar.gz to make it work properly. 2.) Having the system set up as described - on non-Ubuntu systems this should be installing slmodem-2.9.11-20070505 and using slmodemd from SLMODEMD-1.0.13.tar.gz - # sudo slmodemd -d2 -c YOUR_COUNTRY --alsa your_modem_device_name fails with error: mixer setup: attach hw:1 error: No such device <923.340191> main: alsa setup: cannot setup mixer: No such device ALSA lib pcm.c:2145:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem error: alsa setup: cannot open playback device '[your_modem_device_name]': No such file or directory error: cannot setup device `[your_modem_device_name]' Fix: Prevent the kernel module snd_trident from loading and make sure snd_intel8x0 snd_intel8x0m are loaded in _this_ order. On Ubuntu systems this can be done by editing /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist blacklist snd_intel8x0m blacklist snd_trident and /etc/modules snd_intel8x0 snd_intel8x0m Now starting # slmodemd -d2 -c YOUR_COUNTRY --alsa your_modem_device_name (or # sudo /etc/init.d/sl-modem-daemon start on Ubuntu systems) and the connection works fine. It might be worth a try to load snd_trident with # sudo modprobe snd_trident afterwards (putting it into /etc/rc.local didn't work though). I could establish (a somewhat limited) sound support while using the modem, but wasn't able to restart slmodemd then. Tim.
