HI,
I SENT THIS BEFORE THE WEEKEND, MAYBE TO THE WRONG @LINMODEMS.ORG. NO RESPONSE, TRYING AGAIN
AM EXPECTING 2 OTHER CDS OF LINUX; MANDRIVA FOR X86 AND SEUS SAME; TRIED LIVE CD KNOPPIX WHICH PROMPTED THIS EMAIL.... KPPP SAYS UNSUPPORTED PCMCIA WINMODEM IN MY TOSHIBA SATELLITE A105 LAPTOP (2YRS OLD). USED SCANMODEM AND GOT THIS RESULT BELOW WHICH I DONT
UNDERSTAND A DRIP OF.
IS IT JUST KNOPPIX BEING SO UN=MODEM SAVVY OR WILL I DO BETTER TRYING THE 2 EXPECTED LINUX VERSIONS ABOVE?
HOW DO I FIND THE 'DRIVER' FOR MY WINMODEM? (AGERE, SOFTMODEM, INFO BELOW)? IS IT THAT THE DRIVER THAT COMES WITH TOSHIBA'S DISCS IS ONLY WRITTEN FOR WINDOWS AND TO LINUX ITS CHINESE? THANKS
SALLY USA KNOPPIX LIVE CD ON X86 TOSHIBA AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT OR WHERE TO FIND KERNEL INFO.
ModemData.txt:
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 Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid kernel 2.6.24.4
With this Subject Line cogent experts will be alerted, and useful case names left
in the Archive.
YourCountry will enable Country specific guidance. Linux experts in YourCountry
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, Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid
Linux version 2.6.24.4 (root@Knoppix) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-2)) #2 SMP
PREEMPT Tue Mar 25 21:35:28 CET 2008
scanModem update of: 2008_07_10
There are no blacklisted modem drivers in /etc/modprobe* files
USB modems not recognized
For candidate card in slot 00:14.2, firmware information and bootup diagnostics
are:
PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name
---------- --------- --------- --------------
00:14.2 1002:437b 1179:ff10 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition
Audio Controller
Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
17: 1082 IO-APIC-fasteoi wifi0, HDA Intel
--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 00:14.2 ----
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
===== 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.
PCI slot 00:14.2 has a High Definition Audio Card
The drivers are in the kernel modules tree at:
/lib/modules/2.6.24.4/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko
The ALSA verion is 1.0.16
The modem cards detected by "aplay -l" are:
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
The /proc/asound/pcm file reports:
-----------------------
00-06: Si3054 Modem : Si3054 Modem : playback 1 : capture 1
00-00: ALC861VD Analog : ALC861VD Analog : playback 1 : capture 2
about /proc/asound/cards:
------------------------
0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
HDA ATI SB at 0xc0400000 irq 17
If not a Conexant modem, the driver snd-hda-intel with its dependent drivers:
snd_hda_intel 295196 1
snd_hwdep 13572 1 snd_hda_intel
----------
provide audio + modem support with the modem chip residing on the subsystem.
Any particular card can host any one of several soft modem chips.
The modem codec file for the HDA card is: /proc/asound/card0/codec#0
--------------------------------------------------------
Codec: Generic 11c1 Si3054
Address: 0
Vendor Id: 0x11c13026
Subsystem Id: 0x11790001
Revision Id: 0x100700
Modem Function Group: 0x1
The audio card hosts a softmodem chip: 0x11c13026
The softmodem chip 0x11c13026 is in principle supported by the COMM support of slmodemd
and the joint snd-hda-intel audio+modem driver, begun with ALSA version 1.0.13.
For HDA cards with ALC883 chips, an upgrade to ALSA verions 1.0.15 way be necessary.
Instructions for upgrading snd-hda-intel and its dependent driver set are at: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-seventh/msg00282.html
=== Finished firmware and bootup diagnostics, next deducing cogent software.
===
Predictive diagnostics for card in bus 00:14.2:
Modem chipset detected on
NAME="Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio
Controller "
CLASS=0403
PCIDEV=1002:437b
SUBSYS=1179:ff10
IRQ=17
HDA=1002:437b
SOFT=1002:437b.HDA
CHIP=0x11c13026
IDENT=slmodemd
SLMODEMD_DEVICE=hw:0,6
Driver=snd-hda-intel
For candidate modem in: 00:14.2
0403 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller
Primary device ID: 1002:437b
Subsystem PCI_id 1179:ff10
Softmodem codec or chipset from diagnostics: 0x11c13026
from Archives:
The HDA card softmodem chip is 0x11c13026
Support type needed or chipset: slmodemd supporting the snd-hda-intel audio+modem
driver
An ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) modem driver: snd-hda-intel
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.gcc4.2.tar.gz having a compiled slmodemd. Unpack under Linux
with:
$ tar zxf SLMODEMD.gcc4.2.tar.gz
and read instructions therein. But briefly, the modem is setup with command:
slmodemd -c YOUR_COUNTRY --alsa hw:0,6
reporting dynamic creation of ports:
/dev/ttySL0 --> /dev/pts/N , with N some number
Read DOCs/Smartlink.txt and Modem/DOCs/YourSystem.txt for follow through guidance.
----------------end Softmodem section --------------
Writing DOCs/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: 4.2.3
and the compiler used in kernel assembly: 4.2.3
Minimal compiling resources appear complete:
make utility - /usr/bin/make
Compiler version 4.2
linuc_headers base folder /lib/modules/2.6.24.4/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.
Compiling hsfmodem drivers does require linux-libc-dev and libc6-dev packages,
for kernels 2.6.24 and later versions.
In not included on your install CD, search for them at http://packages.ubuntu.com
or comparable Repository for other Linux distros.
When compiling ALSA drivers, the utility "patch" will also be needed.
Compressed files at: /usr/src/gspca.tar.bz2 /usr/src/kqemu.tar.bz2 /usr/src/kvm.tar.bz2
/usr/src/linux-2.6.24.tar.bz2 /usr/src/loop-aes.tar.bz2 /usr/src/ndiswrapper.tar.bz2
/usr/src/patch-2.6.24.4.bz2 /usr/src/rtai-source.tar.bz2 /usr/src/virtualbox-ose.tar.bz2
For Debian and some related distributions, a package kernel-kbuild-2.6-24 may be
needed to support driver compiling.
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 packages.
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 260920 Apr 13 2007 /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
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
Don't worry about the following, it is for 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/alsa-base-blacklist:# Uncomment these entries in order to blacklist
unwanted modem drivers
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist:# blacklist snd-atiixp-modem
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist:# blacklist snd-via82xx-modem
Within any ancient /etc/devfs files:
Within ancient kernel 2.4.n /etc/module.conf files:
--------- end modem support lines --------
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