G'day,
I have an Asus a9rs laptop with an internal Motorola sm56 voice
modem which works with Windows XP pro (com port 3). Ubuntu (running on
a dual instalation) will not recognise this even chasing it through to
the number 127.0.0.1 (giving the port its connected to I assume).
Running a live cd of mepis 6.0 I can get it to tell me the modem is busy
(when its not) but I cannot find the port reference.
I have run the scanModem software and the results above.
My knowlege of the workings of operating systems and things is limited,
any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks
Justin
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-------------------------- System information ----------------------------
CPU=i686,
Linux version 2.6.15-26-386 (root@mepis-party) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 PREEMPT Wed Jul 19 12:14:26 EDT 2006
scanModem update of: 2008_02_25
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 ALSA verion is 1.0.10
The modem cards detected by "aplay -l" are:
The /proc/asound/pcm file reports:
-----------------------
00-00: ALC861 Analog : ALC861 Analog : playback 1 : capture 2
about /proc/asound/cards:
------------------------
0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
HDA ATI SB at 0xfebf8000 irq 185
USB modem not detected by lsusb
For candidate card in slot 0000:00:14.2, firmware information and bootup diagnostics are:
PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name
---------- --------- --------- --------------
0000:00:14.2 1002:437b 1043:13d7 0403: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 437b
Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
185: 42398 IO-APIC-level HDA Intel, yenta
--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 0000:00:14.2 ----
[17179609.676000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
=== Finished modem firmware and bootup diagnostics section. ===
=== Next deducing cogent software ===
Predictive diagnostics for card in bus 0000:00:14.2:
Modem chipset detected on
CLASS="Class 0403: 1002:437b"
NAME="0403: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 437b "
PCIDEV=1002:437b
SUBSYS=1043:13d7
SUBven=1043
IRQ=185
CODECp=10573055
IDENT=slmodemd
CODECp=10573055
HDA=1002:437b
CHIP=0x10573055
SOFT=1002:437b.HDA
For candidate modem in: 0000:00:14.2
Class 0403: 1002:437b 0403: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 437b
Primary PCI_id 1002:437b
Subsystem PCI_id 1043:13d7
Softmodem codec or chipset from diagnostics:
from Archives: 10573055, residing on a HDA Subsystem with support by slmodemd and driver snd-hda-intel
The HDA card softmodem chip is 0x10573055
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:
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.gcc4.0.tar.gz having a compiled slmodemd. Unpack under Linux with:
$ tar zxf SLMODEMD.gcc4.0.tar.gz
and read instructions therein. But briefly, the modem is setup with command:
sudo slmodemd -c YOUR_COUNTRY --alsa hw:0,1_or_hw:0,6
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.
----------------end Softmodem section --------------
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: 4.0.3
and the compiler used in kernel assembly: 4.0.3
linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386 resources needed for compiling are not manifestly ready!
If compiling is necessary packages must be installed, providing:
linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386
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 257720 2006-07-05 09:00 /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
noipdefault
passive
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:
/etc/udev/mepis.rules:# modems
/etc/udev/mepis.rules:KERNEL="ttyLTM0", SYMLINK="modem"
/etc/udev/mepis.rules:KERNEL="536ep0", SYMLINK="modem"
/etc/udev/rules.d/010_mepis.rules:# modems
/etc/udev/rules.d/010_mepis.rules:KERNEL="ttyLTM0", SYMLINK="modem"
/etc/udev/rules.d/010_mepis.rules:KERNEL="536ep0", SYMLINK="modem"
/etc/udev/rules.d/60-symlinks.rules:# Create /dev/modem symlink
/etc/udev/rules.d/60-symlinks.rules:KERNEL=="ttyLTM[0-9]*", SYMLINK+="modem"
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 --------
