Dear Linmodems,
Due to cable theft in the area where I live, I connect to the internet using
a mobile phone as a dial-up modem connected to the laptop by USB cable.
Mobile phone: Motorola Razr V6maxx (3G and HSDPA capable). Service Provider:
Vodacom SA. Dial-up no: *99***1#.
After my initial delight with Linux, my experience has been somewhat
frustrated by being unable to connect to the internet. I would be very happy
to leave Windows Vista, but without an internet connection, it is
impracticable.
I found a linux modem driver at the Motorola site:
sm56-06.05.02-2.md10_263-7.i586.rpm. I installed it and it installed
successfully. But I don't know what to do next - or even if the sm56 file is
the right one.
Any assistance you can give would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Peter Wallach
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-------------------------- System information ----------------------------
CPU=i686, Mandriva Linux release 2008.0 (Official) for i586
Kernel 2.6.22.9-laptop-1mdv on an i686 /
Linux version 2.6.22.9-laptop-1mdv (lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.2.2 20070909 (prerelease) (4.2.2-0.RC.1mdv2008.0)) #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 04:17:10 CEST 2007
scanModem update of: 2008_03_31
There are no blacklisted modem drivers in /etc/modprobe* files
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 8086:27d8 103c:30bb Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G
Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
22: 5642 IO-APIC-fasteoi HDA Intel
--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 00:1b.0 ----
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
PCI slot 00:1b.0 has a High Definition Audio Card
===== Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) diagnostics =====
The ALSA packages provide audio support and also drivers for some modems.
ALSA diagnostics are written during bootup to /proc/asound/ folders.
The ALSA verion is 1.0.15rc1
The modem cards detected by "aplay -l" are:
The /proc/asound/pcm file reports:
-----------------------
00-01: Conexant Digital : Conexant Digital : playback 1
00-00: CONEXANT Analog : CONEXANT Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
about /proc/asound/cards:
------------------------
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xd8240000 irq 22
=== Finished firmware and bootup diagnostics, next deducing cogent software. ===
Predictive diagnostics for card in bus 00:1b.0:
Modem chipset detected on
CLASS="Class 0403: 8086:27d8"
NAME="Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G "
PCIDEV=8086:27d8
SUBSYS=103c:30bb
IRQ=22
HDA=8086:27d8
SOFT=8086:27d8.HDA
CodecArchived=14f12bfa
ArchivedChip=0x14f12bfa
CodecClass=14f1
IDENT=hsfmodem
For candidate modem in: 00:1b.0
Class 0403: 8086:27d8 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G
Primary PCI_id 8086:27d8
Subsystem PCI_id 103c:30bb
Softmodem codec or chipset from diagnostics:
from Archives: 0x14f12bfa, a Conexant type using hsfmodem software.
Support type needed or chipset: hsfmodem
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
The hsfmodem package serves a great variety of Conexant chipset modems.
Start at http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf for
eventually download of a hsfmodem_7.68.00.07full_k.???.zip package
with ??? the package type (deb, rpm, tar etc)
These packages have compiled drivers but will also compile a driver,
if there is a mismatch between the resident kernel and provided driver.
The generic hsfmodem_7.68.00.07full.tar.gz package only provides compiling support
Read Conexant.txt
Writing Conexant.txt
Completed candidate modem analyses.
The base of the UDEV device file system is: /dev/.udev
Versions adequately match for the compiler installed: 4.2.2
and the compiler used in kernel assembly: 4.2.2
linux-headers-2.6.22.9-laptop-1mdv resources needed for compiling are not manifestly ready!
If compiling is necessary packages must be installed, providing:
kernel-source-2.6.22.9-laptop-1mdv
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-t 1 root root 317284 2007-08-20 23:57 /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)
chmod a+x /usr/sbin/pppd
or under Ubuntu related Linuxes
chmod a+x /usr/sbin/pppd
Checking settings of: /etc/ppp/options
lock
noauth
noipdefault
usepeerdns
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.
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Checking for modem support lines:
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/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:
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