Hi! I have a Toshiba laptop satellite S 2800 - 600; I am trying to get
the modem to work. i tried almost everything.... from slmodemd driver,
compiled with or without alsa support, to hsfmodem rpm package provided
by the linuxant community. I hope you could help.
Best Regards
Roy
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-------------------------- System information ----------------------------
CPU=i686, Fedora Core release 6 (Zod)
Kernel
Linux version 2.6.22.9-61.fc6 (brewbuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-13)) #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 18:48:03 EDT 2007
scanModem update of: 2007-20-07
There are no blacklisted modem drivers in /etc/modprobe* files
Potentially useful modem drivers now loaded are:
slamr
snd_intel8x0m
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 [YMF754 ]: YMF754 - Yamaha DS-1E (YMF754)
Yamaha DS-1E (YMF754) at 0xfcee8000, irq 11
1 [Modem ]: ICH-MODEM - Intel ICH Modem
Intel ICH Modem at irq 11
/proc/asound/pcm:
00-03: YMFPCI - PCM2 : YMFPCI - Direct Recording : capture 1
00-02: YMFPCI - Rear : YMFPCI - Rear PCM : playback 1
00-01: YMFPCI - IEC958 : YMFPCI - IEC958 : playback 1
00-00: YMFPCI : YMFPCI : playback 32 : capture 1
01-00: Intel ICH - Modem : Intel ICH Modem - Modem : playback 1 : capture 1
A copy of /proc/asound had been copied to Modem/ALSAphenicien.tgz
USB modem not detected by lsusb
For candidate card, firmware information and bootup diagnostics are:
PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name
---------- --------- --------- --------------
00:1f.6 8086:2446 1179:0001 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Modem
Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
11: 147755 XT-PIC-XT yenta, yenta, uhci_hcd:usb1, ohci1394, YMFPCI, Intel ICH Modem, eth0
--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 00:1f.6 ----
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.6 disabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.6 to 64
The PCI slot 00:1f.6 of the modem card may be disabled early in
a bootup process, but then enabled later. If modem drivers load
but the modem is not responsive, read Bootup.txt about possible fixes.
Send dmesg.txt along with ModemData.txt to discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
if help is needed.
=== Finished modem firmware and bootup diagnostics section. ===
=== Next deducing cogent software ===
There is candidate modem software.
For candidate modem in PCI bus: 00:1f.6
Class 0703: 8086:2446 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Modem
Primary PCI_id 8086:2446
Subsystem PCI_id 1179:0001
Softmodem codec or chipset from diagnostics: SIL27, an LSI/AgereSystems type.
from Archives: SIL27, an LSI/AgereSystems type.
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: slmodemd
An ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) modem driver: snd-intel8x0m
provides Low Level support enabling contact with the modem hardware.
For all BUT Conexant chip soft modems (using hsfmodem software)
complementary High Level support is through a Smartlink utility: slmodemd
Download from http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/
the package SLMODEMD.gcc4.1.tar.gz having a compiled slmodemd. Unpack under Linux with:
$ tar zxf SLMODEMD.gcc4.1.tar.gz
and read instructions therein. But briefly, the modem is setup with command:
slmodemd -c YOUR_COUNTRY --alsa modem:1
reporting dynamic creation of ports:
/dev/ttySL0 --> /dev/pts/N , with N some number
Read Smartlink.txt and Modem/YourSystem.txt for follow through guidance.
Already loaded into the kernel is snd-intel8x0m and audio drivers it depends on,
displayed by: lsmod | grep snd_intel8x0m
Module Size Used by
-------------------------------------
snd_intel8x0m 20813 2
snd_ac97_codec 96613 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_ymfpci
snd_pcm 74949 4 snd_intel8x0m,snd_ymfpci,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd 53317 18 snd_intel8x0m,snd_ymfpci,snd_seq_oss,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 14281 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_ymfpci,snd_pcm
The diagnostic outputs for this softmodem section have their raw information in
folders and text files under /proc/asound/ which you can browse. The information
is from files:
/proc/asound/pcm
-------------------------------
00-03: YMFPCI - PCM2 : YMFPCI - Direct Recording : capture 1
00-02: YMFPCI - Rear : YMFPCI - Rear PCM : playback 1
00-01: YMFPCI - IEC958 : YMFPCI - IEC958 : playback 1
00-00: YMFPCI : YMFPCI : playback 32 : capture 1
01-00: Intel ICH - Modem : Intel ICH Modem - Modem : playback 1 : capture 1
/proc/asound/modules
-------------------------------
0 snd_ymfpci
1 snd_intel8x0m
/proc/asound/card1/codec97#0/mc97#0-0+regs
-------------------------------
0:7c = 5349 and 0:7e = 4c27
which were translated from hexadecimal code into: SIL27
/proc/asound/card1/codec97#0/mc97#0-0
-------------------------------
Extended modem ID: codec=0 LIN1
and from the command:
aplay -l | grep -i modem
card 1: Modem [Intel ICH Modem], device 0: Intel ICH - Modem [Intel ICH Modem - Modem]
----------------end Softmodem section --------------
Writing Intel.txt
Writing Smartlink.txt
============ end Smartlink 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
Minimal compiling resources appear complete:
make utility - /usr/bin/make
Compiler version 4.1
linuc_headers base folder /lib/modules/2.6.22.9-61.fc6/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 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:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 312492 Dec 1 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
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: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15 Dec 15 17:29 /dev/modem
slmodemd created symbolic link /dev/ttySL0: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15 Dec 15 17:29 /dev/ttySL0
Within /etc/udev/ files:
/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="modems/mwave*", NAME="%k", GROUP="uucp", MODE="0660"
Within /etc/modprobe.conf files:
Within any ancient /etc/devfs files:
Within ancient kernel 2.4.n /etc/module.conf files:
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