Ivica
Please retest without daemon mode.
There are cases in usage of the slmodemd software for /dev/pts/N ports,
where there is success in non-daemon mode
but failure in daemon mode. Probably not your case. but
Just worth testing for the minor effort invovled.
MarvS
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Ivica Grujic <grujakg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> /etc/init.d/martian is rc wrapper startup script for user space martian
> _modem from scripts dir, which in return calls /usr/sbin/martian_modem
> --daemon ttySM0, very useful for me.
>
> As I had mentioned executing user space part results in:
>
> [grujakg@galatea ~]$ sudo /usr/sbin/martian_modem --country=us
>
> martian: error: Common area unrecognized, no terminating signature
>
> grujakg
>
>
>
> Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
> > Ivica
> >
> > RE: /etc/init.d/martian start
> > Not sure what this is doing on your System. PLease do
> > $ martian_modem --help
> > $ martian_modem --info countries
> > Note your Country abbreviation, or just for testing use "us" in:
> > $ sudo martian_modem --country=us
> > or if not a Ubuntu like System
> >
> > # martian_modem --country=us
> >
> > MarvS
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Ivica Grujic <grujakg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Thanks to all of you for helping me solve this problem.
> >>
> >> I had tried Marvin's patched file, thanks Martin, but with same result.
> >> Maybe I'm missing something in user space part. Detachment part cames
> >> after starting martian userspace service.
> >>
> >> dmesg|tail -f
> >> -------
> >> ....
> >> martian loaded - KMARTIAN_STAMP
> >>
> >> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18 (level,
> >> low) -> IRQ 18
> >>
> >> "martian_dev": added device 11c1:440 BaseAddress = 0xa400, CommAddres =
> >> 0xa000, irq = 18
> >> ....
> >> Till this moment everything looks good except IRQ serving part missing,
> >> but if not wrong that part should go after starting user space app, so:
> >>
> >> /etc/init.d/martian start
> >>
> >> I'm getting
> >>
> >>
> >> "martian_dev": martian_modem is detached
> >>
> >> and from /var/log/messages:
> >>
> >> Mar 14 22:37:32 galatea martian: error: Common area unrecognized, no
> >> terminating signature
> >> --------
> >>
> >> Antonio, thanks for suggestion. I'm going to try scanmodem part. Well,
> >> certainly before Monday ;)
> >>
> >> Thanks to all you kind people for helping.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> >> > There is an IRQ = 18, and an ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0a
> >> > error/message here, can you run scanModem and send it to determine if
> >> > it is the IRQ problem that is making martian_dev fail.
> >> >
> >> > When I run dmesg from slax-6.0.2, I see
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > root@slax:~# dmesg
> >> > Linux version 2.6.24 (root@slax) (gcc version 4.2.3) #1 SMP Wed Feb 27
> >> > 14:33:25 GMT 2008
> >> > BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> >> > BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
> >> > BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> >> > BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> >> > BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000009ff0000 (usable)
> >> > BIOS-e820: 0000000009ff0000 - 0000000009ff3000 (ACPI NVS)
> >> > BIOS-e820: 0000000009ff3000 - 000000000a000000 (ACPI data)
> >> > BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> >> > 0MB HIGHMEM available.
> >> > 159MB LOWMEM available.
> >> > ***** removed to save space and not needed for this message ****
> >> > martian loaded - KMARTIAN_STAMP
> >> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level,
> >> > low) -> IRQ 10
> >> > "martian_dev": added device 11c1:442 BaseAddress = 0xec00, CommAddres
> >> > = 0xe800, irq = 10
> >> > "martian_dev": serving irqs in module
> >> > "martian_dev": martian_modem is attached.
> >> > PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
> >> > PPP BSD Compression module registered
> >> > PPP Deflate Compression module registered
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > So it might be the IRQ problem that is causing the martian_dev to
> >> > fail. I do not know for sure, but maybe Marv, Jacques, Stefan, or
> >> > Alexi can tell you what is happening. In principle the patches did
> >> > fix the issues for me, but in your case the IRQ is getting in the way
> >> > causing martian_dev to fail.
> >> >
> >> > Hope this helps,
> >> >
> >> > Antonio
> >> >
> >> > On 3/13/08, Ivica Grujic <grujakg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> >> >>> On 3/11/08, grujakg <grujakg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> 3.17 wrote:
> >> >>>>> grujakg wrote:
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> Stefan Puch-3 wrote:
> >> >>>>>>> ...
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> The patch is attached this mail. Copy it into martian/kmodule and run
> >> >>>>>>> "patch -p0 < martian-patch-kernel-2.6.24.diff"
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> ...
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> Got the same problem after updating to 2.6.24.3-12.fc8.
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> I've found same appropriate patch on nv forum, but after successful
> >> >> build
> >> >>>>>> and installation I'm receiving this martian errors:
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> ...
> >> >>>>>> kernel: martian loaded - KMARTIAN_STAMP
> >> >>>>>> kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18
> >> >>>>>> (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> >> >>>>>> kernel: "martian_dev": added device 11c1:440 BaseAddress = 0xa400,
> >> >>>>>> CommAddres = 0xa000, irq = 18
> >> >>>>>> martian: error: Common area unrecognized, no terminating signature
> >> >>>>>> kernel: "martian_dev": martian_modem is detached
> >> >>>>>> ...
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> any suggestions, please.
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> thanks in advance
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>> In addition to the problem solved by the patch mentioned above,
> >> >>>>> common->kstamp is messed up.
> >> >>>>> This very unclean patch should handle it.
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> --- modem/mport.c.orig 2008-03-10 17:50:03.000000000 +0000
> >> >>>>> +++ modem/mport.c 2008-03-10 17:47:29.000000000 +0000
> >> >>>>> @@ -319,6 +319,9 @@
> >> >>>>> 0x0
> >> >>>>> );
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> + strcpy (common->kstamp, "20061202\0");
> >> >>>>> + strcpy (common->tsignature, "martiaN\0");
> >> >>>>> +
> >> >>>>> if (common == MAP_FAILED) {
> >> >>>>> LOGSYSERR (Error, "mmap");
> >> >>>>> LOGERR ("Failed to map device common data block\n");
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>> Well, this doesn't work for me, same error...
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> I'll try to follow Chentsov'a tip, any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Thanks
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> --
> >> >>>> View this message in context:
> >> >>>>
> >> >> http://www.nabble.com/Patch-for-kernel-version-2.6.24-tp15101327p15993332.html
> >> >>>> Sent from the Linux Winmodem Support - Discussion mailing list archive at
> >> >>>> Nabble.com.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Please post your error message. Many have complained that kernel
> >> >>> 2.6.24.3-12.fc8. has broken many things, like eth0, wireless etc.
> >> >>> There are other kernels on koji, you might need to get a kernel from
> >> >>> there and kernel-devel as well and test it out. I have a Fedora 8
> >> >>> machine, but it is currently down. I would like to test it as well
> >> >>> and report back. I am having troubles with
> >> >>> slmodem-2.9.11-20080XYY.tar.gz package for slmodemd which supports
> >> >>> smartlink modems.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Regards,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Antonio
> >> >>>
> >> >> Sorry for inconvenience, the error messages are the same:
> >> >>
> >> >> kernel: martian loaded - KMARTIAN_STAMP
> >> >> kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18
> >> >> (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> >> >> kernel: "martian_dev": added device 11c1:440 BaseAddress =
> >> >> 0xa400,CommAddres = 0xa000, irq = 18
> >> >> martian: error: Common area unrecognized, no terminating signature
> >> >> kernel: "martian_dev": martian_modem is detached
> >> >>
> >> >> Regards
> >> >>
> >> >> grujakg
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
