hey there, i'm sazzad from Bangladesh. I've recently installed Ubuntu 7.10 and my internal modem Prolink 1456PVA is not detected by the OS. I've borrowed a Prolink External Modem to identify my internal modem online. How can I do this? I've also used scanmodem tool and it is attached with this mail. One more thing is, if it isn't possible to enable this modem under Ubuntu, what about fedora? I've got drivers from prolink for fedora 3 and 4. Will it work on fedora's latest versions? Hope someone will help me. Regards Sazzad
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 2.6.20-15-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 2.6.20-15-generic (root@palmer) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)) #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 scanModem update of: 2008_04_27 There are no blacklisted modem drivers in /etc/modprobe* files Attached USB devices are: ID 1307:0163 USB modems not recognized For candidate card in slot 02:01.0, firmware information and bootup diagnostics are: PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name ---------- --------- --------- -------------- 02:01.0 11c1:0620 11c1:0620 Communication controller: Agere Systems Unknown device 0620 Modem interrupt assignment and sharing: --- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 02:01.0 ---- === Finished firmware and bootup diagnostics, next deducing cogent software. === Predictive diagnostics for card in bus 02:01.0: Modem chipset detected on CLASS="Class 0780: 11c1:0620" NAME="Communication controller: Agere Systems Unknown device 0620" PCIDEV=11c1:0620 SUBSYS=11c1:0620 IRQ=11 IDENT=Agere.SV2P For candidate modem in: 02:01.0 Class 0780: 11c1:0620 Communication controller: Agere Systems Unknown device 0620 Primary PCI_id 11c1:0620 Support type needed or chipset: Agere.SV2P ----------------end Softmodem section -------------- Vendor 11c1 is Lucent Technologies with modem technology now under LSI Inc. Their Linux code developer/maintainer is Soumyendu Sarkar. Support for a chipset and its continued maintenance is only initiated at the request of a major chipset buyer, or comparable sponsor. Several different modem chipset types are produced: with varying support under Linux. Device ID Support Name Comment --------- ------------- ----------- ----------------------------- 0480 serial drivers Venus controller chipset 1673JV7 0440-045d martian Mars/Apollo DSP (digital signal processing) chipsets 0462 none 56K.V90/ADSL Wildwire 048d none SV2P soft modem 048(c or f) AGRSM SV2P soft modem 0600 none soft modem, very few in the field. 0620 AGRSM Pinball soft modem, in some HP desktop PCs 062(1-3) none SV92PP,Pinball soft modem, in some HP desktop PCs martian - At http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/kernel-2.6/martian/ AGRSM - At http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/sv92/ the agrsm-20080203.tar.gz The suse-10-2a.tar.gz has newer Agere/LSI code, but there are compiling problems with newer kernels/ From http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/sv92/ download agrsm-20080203.tar.gz The suse-10-2a.tar.gz thereat has newer Agere/LSI code, but there are compiling problems with newer kernels/ Read Agrsm.txt -------------- end Agere Systems section ------------------- Completed candidate modem analyses. The base of the UDEV device file system is: /dev/.udev Versions adequately match for the compiler installed: 4.1.2 and the compiler used in kernel assembly: 4.1.2 Minimal compiling resources appear complete: make utility - /usr/bin/make Compiler version 4.1 linuc_headers base folder /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-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. When compiling ALSA drivers, the utility "patch" will also be needed. 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 269224 2007-04-05 09:41 /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 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 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/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 --------