I have an ACER Extensa 5220 Notebook and am not able to identify my modem. I tried to install an Conexant HSF driver without result. Below the Modem DATA text of scan modem. Would you please be so kind to help me? Thank you very much! Walter Only plain text email is forwarded by the Discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx List Server, as HTML can contain viruses. Use as the email Subject Line: YourName, YourCountry Welcome to openSUSE 10.3 (X86-64) - Kernel kernel 2.6.22.5-31-default With this Subject Line cogent experts will be alerted, and useful case names left in the Archive. YourCountry will enable Country specific guidance. Your contry's local Linux experts can be found through: http://www.linux.org/groups/index.html Responses from Discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are sometimes blocked by an Internet Provider mail filters. So in a day, also check the Archived responses at http://www.linmodems.org -------------------------- System information ---------------------------- CPU=x86_64, Welcome to openSUSE 10.3 (X86-64) - Kernel Linux version 2.6.22.5-31-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP 2007/09/21 22:29:00 UTC scanModem update of: 20071030 There are no blacklisted modem drivers in /etc/modprobe* files The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) packages providing audio support on your System, also includes drivers for some modems. Diagnostics are under the /proc/asound/ folders. For modems using the snd-hda-intel audio+modem driver, upgrades to a new ALSA version are sometimes necessary to achieve function. See for example: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-seventh/msg02144.html. Audio cards with the ALC883 chipset may require an upgrade to ALSA version 1.0.15 for modem support, see http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-seventh/msg02577.html Copying ALSA diagnostics to Modem/ALSAroot.tgz ALSAversion = 1.0.14 Summary card and chipset information is in: /proc/asound/cards: 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xfc300000 irq 22 /proc/asound/pcm: 00-02: ALC268 Analog : ALC268 Analog : capture 2 00-00: ALC268 Analog : ALC268 Analog : playback 1 : capture 2 USB modem not detected by lsusb For candidate card, firmware information and bootup diagnostics are: PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name ---------- --------- --------- -------------- 00:1b.0 8086:284b 1025:011f Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H Modem interrupt assignment and sharing: 22: 820 IO-APIC-fasteoi tifm_7xx1, ohci1394, yenta, HDA Intel, sdhci:slot0 --- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 00:1b.0 ---- ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64 === Finished modem firmware and bootup diagnostics section. === === Next deducing cogent software === The High Defintion Audio card with PCI ID 8086:284b may host a soft modem chip. ---ALSA bootup diagnostics --- The HDA modem codec file is: /proc/asound/card0/codec#1 ----------------------------------- Codec: Conexant ID 2c06 Address: 1 Vendor Id: 0x14f12c06 Subsystem Id: 0x10250093 Revision Id: 0x100000 Modem Function Group: 0x2 The NotDetermined is not supported by this kernel. There is candidate modem software. For candidate modem in PCI bus: 00:1b.0 Class 0403: 8086:284b Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H Primary PCI_id 8086:284b Subsystem PCI_id 1025:011f Softmodem codec or chipset from diagnostics: from Archives: Lacking a dsp (digital signal processing) chip, the modem is a software intensive or "softmodem" type. Its primary controller manages the traffic with the CPU. But the software needed is specified in the Subsystem. ----------------------------------------- Support type needed or chipset: Support can likely be achieved through two mutually exclusive alternatives: 1) The hsfmodem software for Conexant chipset modems: Read Conexant.txt The following ALSA alternative CANNOT work with Conexant modems. 2) An ALSA modem driver plus slmodemd. Read Smartlink.txt for details, and to test get the package SLMODEMD.gcc4.2.tar.gz from: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/ Writing Intel.txt For owners of a Dell PCs with Conexant HSF modems, a driver source package with full speed enabled is available, but requires driver compiling. Read Conexant.txt Read Conexant.txt Writing Conexant.txt Writing Smartlink.txt ============ end Smartlink section ===================== The base of the UDEV device file system is: /dev/.udev The kernel was compiled with gcc version 4.2.1 and a compiler is not installed linux-headers-2.6.22.5-31-default resources needed for compiling are not manifestly ready! If compiling is necessary packages must be installed, providing: gcc-4.2 kernel-source-2.6.22.5-31-default If a driver compilation fails, with message including some lack of some FileName.h (stdio.h for example), then Some additional kernel-header files need installation to /usr/include. The minimal additional packages are libc6-dev and any of its dependents, under Ubuntu linux-libc-dev If an alternate ethernet connection is available, $ apt-get update $ apt-get -s install linux-kernel-devel will install needed pacakage For Debian/Ubuntu related distributions, run the following command to display the needed package list: Otherwise packages have to be found through http://packages.ubuntu.com Once downloaded and transferred into a Linux partition, they can be installed alltogether with: $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb Checking pppd properties: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root dialout 347008 21. Sep 21:51 /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 noipdefault noauth crtscts lock modem asyncmap 0 nodetach lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 4 lcp-max-configure 60 lcp-restart 2 idle 600 noipx file /etc/ppp/filters 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: /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:KERNEL=="mwave", NAME="modems/% k", GROUP="uucp" /etc/udev/rules.d/77-network.rules:SUBSYSTEM=="net", ENV{INTERFACE}=="ppp*|ippp*|isdn*|plip*|lo*|irda*|dummy*|ipsec*|tun*| tap*|bond*|vlan*|modem*|dsl*", GOTO="skip_ifup" 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 --------