Re: Dan USA PCLinuxOS 2007 for i586

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Dan,

Frightening? Not so much. I read there:
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The modem has a supported Lucent/Agere  Mars or Apollo DSP (digital signal
processing) chipset. Support packages for 2.6.n kernels are at:
http://phep2.technion.ac.il/linmodems/packages/ltmodem/kernel-2.6/martian/

See AgereDSP.txt for Details.
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PCLinuxOS is sufficiently exotic to be unable to tell you which file you could install from the directory above, although I would suggest
 martian-2.6.20-15-generic.tar.gz
AgereDSP.txt was created by scanModem along with ModemData.txt and says what you have to do once the file has been downloaded.

Jacques

Dan wrote:
Hello,
These file is frightening for a newcomer!
And Thank You in advance for any help You can give.

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          SomeName, YourCountry PCLinuxOS release 2007 (PCLinuxOS) for i586
Kernel 2.6.18.8.tex5 on an i686 /  kernel 2.6.18.8.tex5
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--------------------------  System information ----------------------------
CPU=i686,  PCLinuxOS release 2007 (PCLinuxOS) for i586
Kernel 2.6.18.8.tex5 on an i686 /
Linux version 2.6.18.8.tex5 (vaughan@localhost) (gcc version 4.1.1 20060724 (prerelease) (4.1.1-4pclos2007)) #1 SMP Thu May 10 11:36:58 WST 2007
scanModem update of:  2007_August_31


There are no blacklisted modem drivers in /etc/modprobe*  files
USB modem not detected by lsusb


Several modems are supported by drivers with ALSA, the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture software.
Copying ALSA diagnostics to Modem/ALSAroot.tgz
ALSAversion = 1.0.14

Modem or candidate host audio card have firmware information and diagnostics:

PCI slot    PCI ID        SubsystemID    Name
----------    ---------    ---------    --------------
00:0a.0 11c1:044e 1235:044e Communication controller: Agere Systems LT WinModem

Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
 5:       1335          XT-PIC  uhci_hcd:usb2, 164x, VIA8233A
--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 00:0a.0 ----
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5

=== Finished modem firmware and bootup diagnostics section. ===
=== Next deducing cogent software ===

For candidate modem in PCI bus:  00:0a.0
  Class 0780: 11c1:044e Communication controller: Agere Systems LT WinModem
     Primary PCI_id  11c1:044e
Support type needed or chipset:    Agere.DSP



The modem has a supported Lucent/Agere  Mars or Apollo DSP (digital signal
processing) chipset. Support packages for 2.6.n kernels are at:
http://phep2.technion.ac.il/linmodems/packages/ltmodem/kernel-2.6/martian/

See AgereDSP.txt for Details.
 DSP=1

Vendor 11c1 is Lucent Technologies with modem technology now under LSI Inc.
Their Linux code developer/maintainer is Soumyendu Sarkar. Support for a chipset and its continued maintenance is only initiated at the request of a major chipset buyer, or comparable sponsor. Several different modem chipset types are produced:
with varying support under Linux.
Device ID  Support        Name           Comment
---------  -------------  -----------    -----------------------------
0480       serial drivers Venus           controller chipset 1673JV7
0440-045d martian Mars/Apollo DSP (digital signal processing) chipsets
0462       none           56K.V90/ADSL Wildwire
048d none                  SV2P            soft modem
048(c or f) AGRSM         SV2P            soft modem
0600       none           soft modem, very few in the field.
0620       AGRSM          Pinball  soft modem, in some HP desktop PCs
062(1-3) none SV92PP,Pinball soft modem, in some HP desktop PCs

martian - At http://phep2.technion.ac.il/linmodems/packages/ltmodem/kernel-2.6/martian/

AGRSM - At http://phep2.technion.ac.il/linmodems/packages/ltmodem/kernel-2.6/
agrsm-alpha.tar.bz2 potentially provides support for PCI_id chipsets
  11c1:048c,  11c1:048f and 11c1:0620
in addition to prior support of Subsystems under Intel 8086:???? below
11C1:048C
11C1:048F
11C1:0620
8086:(2416 2426 7196 2486 24C6 24CD6 266D) are soft modem controllers, better
  supported through ALSA modem drivers and the Smartlink slmodemd helper.
There has only been one reported success for 11c1:048c, 11c1:048f and 11c1:0620. See:
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-seventh/msg00849.html
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-seventh/msg00970.html
Interaction with experts will likely be necessary to get any of these modems working.

0x044e -- Mars 3 Mercury data fax only
-------------- end Agere Systems section -------------------

Completed candidate modem analyses.

The base of the UDEV device file system is: /dev/.udev
/dev/.udevdb

Versions adequately match for the compiler installed: 4.1.1
            and the compiler used in kernel assembly: 4.1.1



Minimal compiling resources appear complete:
  make utility - /usr/bin/make
  Compiler version 4.1
  linuc_headers base folder /lib/modules/2.6.18.8.tex5/build

However some compilations and executable functions may need additional files, in the FileNames.h (so called kernel "h"eaders) collection installed in /usr/include/ . For martian_modem, additional required packages are libc6-dev (and for Debian/Ubuntu, linux-libc-dev). The also required headers of package libc6 are commonly installed by default.



If a driver compilation files with message including some lack of some FileName.h (stdio.h for example.
Some additional kernel-header files need installation to /usr/include.
For Debian/Ubuntu related distributions, run the following command to display the needed package list:
$ sudo apt-get -s install linux-kernel-devel
While some of the files may be on the install CD, others may have to be found through http://packages.ubuntu.com

For Ubuntu Feisty, additional packages required were:
libc6-dev linux-libc-dev
available through http://packages.ubuntu.com/ , if not on the install CD.
Such packages may have different names for other Linux distributions.
Try installing just the libc6-dev, then test the compile again.


Checking pppd properties:
   -rwsr-xr-t 1 root root 304536 Nov  6  2006 /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)
        chmod a+x /usr/sbin/pppd
or under Ubuntu related Linuxes
    chmod a+x /usr/sbin/pppd

Checking settings of:    /etc/ppp/options
lock
noauth
noipdefault
usepeerdns

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: ppp0
Which can interfere with Browser naviagation.

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:

    Within any ancient /etc/devfs files:

    Within ancient kernel 2.4.n /etc/module.conf files:

--------- end modem support lines --------


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