Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Last year I managed to properly configure Debian Sarge for my modem: see the
>> complete procedure reported at:
>>
>> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=8252
>>
>> . I'm trying now with Debian Etch. I'm having difficulties in installing
>> slmodem-2.9.10. Maybe you already know the whole necessary procedure? Or
>> shall I run scanmodem and send the output to this list?
Jacques Goldberg <Jacques.Goldberg@xxxxxxx> writes:
> Rodolfo,
> Please understand that "Debian Etch" is not very informative.
> Without knowing which kernel you have installed, it is a bit difficult to help
> you.
>
> Furthermore, the SmartLink Web site is not the right place to pick up Linux
> SmartLink drivers because SmartLink stopped maintaining the drivers while
> their author maintained them at linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink .
>
> So, alltogether, if you need help, please help US by suppying the information
> which we know that we need, for which the scanModem utility is made, rather
> than what you believe to be sufficient.
> scanModem reports, among others, the kernel and compiler used by your Linux
> system. Since your former installation had a kernel 2.4.27-x , it is likely
> that your (newer, I guess) distribution has some 2.6.x kernel, and an other
> compiler, which are good enough reasons to make the old unmaintained
> slmodem-2.9.10 fail.
> See http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/#scanModem
Thanks. I'm attaching ModemData.txt.
Bye
Rodolfo
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-------------------------- System information ----------------------------
CPU=i686, Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Linux version 2.6.18-4-686 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) (waldi@xxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 2007
scanModem update of: 2007-12-07
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:
--- no soundcards ---
/proc/asound/pcm:
A copy of /proc/asound had been copied to Modem/ALSAroot.tgz
idVendor 0x046d Logitech, Inc.
idProduct 0xc001 N48/M-BB48 [FirstMouse Plus]
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0483:7554 SGS Thomson Microelectronics 56k SoftModem
idVendor 0x0483 SGS Thomson Microelectronics
idProduct 0x7554 56k SoftModem
There is candidate modem software.
The base of the UDEV device file system is: /dev/.udev
The kernel was compiled with gcc version 4.1.2 and a compiler is not installed
linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686 resources needed for compiling are not manifestly ready!
If compiling is necessary packages must be installed, providing:
gcc-4.1 linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686
For Debian and some related distributions, a package kernel-kbuild-2.6-18 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 260920 2007-03-17 22:52 /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
auth
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
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:
Within any ancient /etc/devfs files:
Within ancient kernel 2.4.n /etc/module.conf files:
--------- end modem support lines --------
