Dear Expert:
Please help! I have two computers linked in a LAN.
One has a Mandrake 9.0 OS and the other a Mandrake
10.0. My only modem has an Intel536 chip which works.
It is on the Mandrake 9.0 computer.
I have bought an Encore modem with a Tiger
Jet/Intel537 chip for the second computer as backup
but being old and short of memory (mine), I am at a
loss as to how to get a driver that will work on the
Mandrake 10.0 computer.
Thank you for any help,
Raymond Mulley
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-------------------------- System information ----------------------------
CPU=i686, Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586
Kernel 2.6.3-7mdk on an i686 /
Linux version 2.6.3-7mdk (nplanel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)) #1 Wed Mar 17 15:56:42 CET 2004
scanModem update of: 2007-20-07
The modem symbolic link is /dev/modem -> tts/0
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 [V8235 ]: VIA8233 - VIA 8235
VIA 8235 at 0xe400, irq 22
/proc/asound/pcm:
00-00: VIA 8235 : VIA 8235 : playback 4 : capture 1
00-01: VIA 8235 : VIA 8235 : 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
---------- --------- --------- --------------
00:07.0 e159:0001 8086:0003 Communication controller: Tiger Jet Network Inc. Intel 537
Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 00:07.0 ----
=== Finished modem firmware and bootup diagnostics section. ===
=== Next deducing cogent software ===
There is candidate modem software.
For candidate modem in PCI bus: 00:07.0
Class 0780: e159:0001 Communication controller: Tiger Jet Network Inc. Intel 537
Primary PCI_id e159:0001
Support type needed or chipset: INTEL537
Vendor e159 is Tiger Jet , http://www.tjnet.com/
Controller e159:0001 translates PCI commands to the serial link used by
the silabs DAA from the si3034, si3044 and si3056 family.
The e159:0001 with SubSystem 8086:0003 is TJ320 v2.0
is the first and still most common of the Intel537 modem family.
However primary controller chip can have broader uses: http://www.tjnet.com/chips/tiger320.htm
Though having its own driver package under 2.4.n. kernels,
support (if any) from Intel is now included within the Intel-537EP package.
====== end Tigerjet section =======
For Ubuntu Linux users with Intel 536 and 537 chipsets the are driver
installation packages available.
But since 2006, Intel appears to have ceased updates for Linux.
For the INTEL537 and INTEL536 chipset modems, the most current support is provided at:
http://phep2.technion.ac.il/linmodems/packages/intel/Philippe.Vouters/
But regular support is not available, see: http://archives.linmodems.org/24939
:
The outdated official Intel support packages can be accessed through:
http://developer.intel.com/design/modems/support/drivers.htm
Read Intel.txt and Modem/YourSystem.txt for follow through guidance.
Writing Intel.txt
Completed candidate modem analyses.
A UDEV device file system is not active.
The kernel was compiled with gcc version 3.3.2 and a compiler is not installed
linux-headers-2.6.3-7mdk resources needed for compiling are not manifestly ready!
If compiling is necessary packages must be installed, providing:
gcc-3.3 kernel-source-2.6.3-7mdk
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-t 1 root root 221624 Feb 26 2004 /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
auth
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: eth0
Which can interfere with Browser naviagation.
Don't worry about the following, it is for the experts
should trouble shooting be necessary.
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