I'm trying to get my modem to work so I can regress back to dial-up to
save $. Any help is appreciated. I'm somewhat technical, but have only
been using Linux for a few months.
Thanks,
Michael
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-------------------------- System information ----------------------------
CPU=i686, Freespire skipjack-feisty (development version) (
Linux version 2.6.20-16-lowlatency (root@terranova) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)) #2 SMP PREEMPT Sun Sep 23 19:54:02 UTC 2007
scanModem update of: 2007-20-07
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. High Definition Audio (HDA) cards can themselves host
a softmodem chipset, with both audio+modem supported by a snd-hda-intel driver.
The ALSA diagnostics are written during bootup to /proc/asound/ folders.
Modem not detected though HDA card diagnostics, though not excluding
a possible Conexant modem chip impervious to ALSA diagnostics.
Proceeding through alternative possibilties.
Summary card and chipset information is in:
/proc/asound/cards:
0 [AudioPCI ]: ENS1370 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1370 at 0xc000, irq 20
/proc/asound/pcm:
00-01: ES1370/2 : ES1370 DAC1 : playback 1
00-00: ES1370/1 : ES1370 DAC2/ADC : playback 1 : capture 1
A copy of /proc/asound had been copied to Modem/ALSAroot.tgz
USB modem not detected by lsusb
For candidate card, firmware information and bootup diagnostics are:
PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name
---------- --------- --------- --------------
01:06.0 11c1:0480 1668:0480 Communication controller: Agere Systems Venus Modem
Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 01:06.0 ----
[ 20.923530] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:06.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 16 (level, high) -> IRQ 16
[ 20.923793] 0000:01:06.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0xc800 (irq = 16) is a 16550A
=== Finished modem firmware and bootup diagnostics section. ===
=== Next deducing cogent software ===
There is candidate modem software.
For candidate modem in PCI bus: 01:06.0
Class 0780: 11c1:0480 Communication controller: Agere Systems Venus Modem
Primary PCI_id 11c1:0480
Support type needed or chipset: Agere.Venus_serial_drivers
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/sv92/ Read Agrsm.txt
-------------- end Agere Systems 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
linux-headers-2.6.20-16-lowlatency resources needed for compiling are not manifestly ready!
If compiling is necessary packages must be installed, providing:
kernel-source-2.6.20-16-lowlatency
For Debian and some related distributions, a package kernel-kbuild-2.6-20 may be needed to support driver compiling
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:
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 269224 2007-04-04 23:41 /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)
chmod a+x /usr/sbin/pppd
or under Ubuntu related Linuxes
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
Read Modem/YourSystem.txt concerning other COMM channels: eth0
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:
/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 --------
