I have taken pictures of this modem in case anyone might get ideas from seeing it. The images and written details are at: http://yosemitefoothills.com/WalmartPC/ I have now moved this modem to a different PC, but the problems remain. I will continue trying to make it work in its new home. So far, the new home (ModemData.txt attached) has the same problem. I still have not tried Ubuntu versions earlier than Feisty. Craig Van Degrift
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So in a day, also check the Archived responses at http://www.linmodems.org -------------------------- System information ---------------------------- CPU=i686, Linux version 2.6.22-14-generic (buildd@terranova) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 scanModem update of: 2007-20-07 There are no blacklisted modem drivers in /etc/modprobe* files Potentially useful modem drivers now loaded are: agrmodem 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 [SI7012 ]: ICH - SiS SI7012 SiS SI7012 with CMI9761A+ at irq 20 /proc/asound/pcm: 00-01: Intel ICH - MIC ADC : SiS SI7012 - MIC ADC : capture 1 00-00: Intel ICH : SiS SI7012 : 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 ---------- --------- --------- -------------- 00:0a.0 11c1:0620 11c1:0621 Communication controller: Agere Systems Unknown device 0620 Modem interrupt assignment and sharing: 20: 9415 IO-APIC-fasteoi SiS SI7012 --- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 00:0a.0 ---- [ 377.203565] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 20 === Finished modem firmware and bootup diagnostics section. === === Next deducing cogent software === There is candidate modem software. For candidate modem in PCI bus: 00:0a.0 Class 0780: 11c1:0620 Communication controller: Agere Systems Unknown device 0620 Primary PCI_id 11c1:0620 Support type needed or chipset: Agere.SV2P 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 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: 4.1.3 and the compiler used in kernel assembly: 4.1.3 Minimal compiling resources appear complete: make utility - /usr/bin/make Compiler version 4.1 linuc_headers base folder /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/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. Compressed files at: /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.22.tar.bz2 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 269256 2007-10-04 12:57 /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) sudo chmod a+x /usr/sbin/pppd or under Ubuntu related Linuxes sudo 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/alsa-base:options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2 /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base:options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2 /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 Within any ancient /etc/devfs files: Within ancient kernel 2.4.n /etc/module.conf files: --------- end modem support lines --------