Hello Linmodem Teachers/Helpers, I've been trying on and off for over a month to get my modem to work with Gutsy but I just can"t figure it out so I'm finally going to ask for help. My PCI modem has a Davicom 9102A chipset and the Davicom company actually makes a driver for it for Linux kernel 2.6; blessum! The driver is called dmfe_1.43.tar.gz and is at this location in case anybody else has one of these modems: http://www.davicom.com.tw/eng/download/Driver/driver_9102a.htm Anyway, I don't know how to proceed from here. How do I install the driver? After the driver is installed, is there a GUI available to control the modem? How do I configure the modem? I have another computer still running XP so I can fetch any needed software if I can learn how to work with it. I don't know if attachments will work, so my latest ModemData.txt file follows: Only plain text email is forwarded by the Discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx List Server, as HTML can contain viruses. Use as the email Subject Line: YourName, YourCountry kernel 2.6.22-14-generic With this Subject Line cogent experts will be alerted, and useful case names left in the Archive. YourCountry will enable Country specific guidance. Your contry's local Linux experts can be found through: http://www.linux.org/groups/index.html. They will know your Country's modem code, which may be essential for dialup service. Responses from Discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are sometimes blocked by an Internet Provider mail filters. 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@palmer) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 scanModem update of: 2008_02_10 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/ALSAdave.tgz The ALSA verion is 1.0.14 The modem cards detected by "aplay -l" are: The /proc/asound/pcm file reports: ----------------------- 00-01: Intel ICH - MIC ADC : Intel 82801AA-ICH - MIC ADC : capture 1 00-00: Intel ICH : Intel 82801AA-ICH : playback 1 : capture 1 about /proc/asound/cards: ------------------------ 0 [I82801AAICH ]: ICH - Intel 82801AA-ICH Intel 82801AA-ICH with AD1886 at irq 18 1 [UART ]: MPU-401 UART - MPU-401 UART MPU-401 UART at 0x300, irq 5 USB modem not detected by lsusb === Finished modem firmware and bootup diagnostics section. === === Next deducing cogent software === 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 2007-10-04 14:57 /usr/sbin/pppd In case of an "error 17" "serial loopback" problem, see: http://linmodems.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 eth1 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 -------- I'd sure appreciate any help; I hope to get rid of Windows as soon as possible! -- Dave Grandeffo
