hi, I am a newbie. I managed to get my wifi working but could not get my dial up modem installed. No modem installed detected by gnome ppp. I do not know how to intepret my modemdata.txt. What chipset does my aspire 4315 use. ? Is Alsa modem driver installed with ubuntu and how do i proceed after identifying chipset. Thanks. -------------------------- System information ---------------------------- CPU=i686, Linux version 2.6.22-14-generic (buildd@terranova) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntuhttp://www.linmodems.org 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 scanModem update of: 2008_11_21 There are no blacklisted modem drivers in /etc/modprobe* files The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) packages providing audio support, also includes drivers for some modems. The ALSA diagnostics are written during bootup to /proc/asound/ folders. The /proc/asound/ audio+modem diagostics are being copied. Finished copy to Modem/ALSAroot.tgz The /proc/asound/pcm file reports: ----------------------- 00-00: HDA Generic : HDA Generic : playback 1 : capture 1 about /proc/asound/cards: ------------------------ 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xfc200000 irq 23 USB modem not detected by lsusb For candidate card in slot 00:1b.0, firmware information and bootup diagnostics are: PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name ---------- --------- --------- -------------- 00:1b.0 8086:284b 1025:0133 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H Modem interrupt assignment and sharing: 23: 22322 IO-APIC-fasteoi HDA Intel --- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 00:1b.0 ---- [ 17.840000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 23 [ 17.840000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64 === Finished modem firmware and bootup diagnostics section. === === Next deducing cogent software === For candidate modem in PCI bus: 00:1b.0 Class 0403: 8086:284b Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H Primary PCI_id 8086:284b Subsystem PCI_id 1025:0133 Softmodem codec or chipset from diagnostics: from Archives: 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: Support can likely be achieved through two mutually exclusive alternatives: 1) The hsfmodem software for Conexant chipset modems: Read Conexant.txt The following ALSA alternative CANNOT work with Conexant modems. 2) An ALSA modem driver plus slmodemd. Read Smartlink.txt for details, and to test get the package SLMODEMD.gcc4.1.tar.gz from: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/ ----------------end Softmodem section -------------- Writing Intel.txt For owners of a Dell PCs with Conexant HSF modems, a driver source package with full speed enabled is available, but requires driver compiling. Read Conexant.txt Read Conexant.txt Writing Conexant.txt Writing Smartlink.txt ============ end Smartlink section ===================== 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. 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 package 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 2007-10-05 03:57 /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: ath0 eth0 wifi0 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 -------- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. 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