Linmodem list,
I am running, on a Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP-M Processor 3000+ 1.6
GHz; a dual boot XP home 32 bit, sp3 & Ubuntu 8.04. I have been
trying some different modems, the Agrere Systems came with this more
or less homemade contraption, but doing a "scanModem" check, I
believe the documentation of the U.S. Robotics modem (12b9:0062 US
Robotics erk41926a-0.6 usr 56k serial driver supported), shown
below indicates I may have some hope of its' functioning as a modem
for my Ubuntu system, doing dial-up Internet (for now).
& since my only online access is via Windows... can I down load any
necessary (system) files via this route & then save them to my Ubuntu
partition? Etc.
Any help, suggestions, cautions, etc. will be more than welcome (& I
will probably need to come back to this discussion, as matter proceed).
Thanks so much.
Sincerely,
Henry Peters
p.s. I did not try to edit the below enclosed, though I know many of
you have seen it all too many times before, I'm really not that sure
of which may be relevant to my situation, apologies.
From my run of scanModem:
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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 2.6.24-16-generic
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,
Linux version 2.6.24-16-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.2.3
(Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008
scanModem update of: 2008_07_12
There are no blacklisted modem drivers in /etc/modprobe* files
Attached USB devices are:
ID 046d:c50e Logitech, Inc. MX-1000 Cordless Mouse Receiver
USB modems not recognized
For candidate card in slot 00:09.0, firmware information and bootup
diagnostics are:
PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name
---------- --------- --------- --------------
00:09.0 11c1:0620 11c1:0620 Communication controller: Agere Systems
Unknown device 0620
Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
15: 5770 IO-APIC-edge libata
--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 00:09.0 ----
For candidate card in slot 00:0d.0, firmware information and bootup
diagnostics are:
PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name
---------- --------- --------- --------------
00:0d.0 12b9:1008 12b9:00a2 Serial controller: 3Com Corp, Modem
Division 56K FaxModem Model 5610
Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
16: 459 IO-APIC-fasteoi SiS SI7012
--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 00:0d.0 ----
[ 22.061414] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level,
low) -> IRQ 16
[ 22.061576] 0000:00:0d.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0xa400 (irq = 16) is a 16550A
=== Finished firmware and bootup diagnostics, next deducing cogent
software. ===
Predictive diagnostics for card in bus 00:09.0:
Modem chipset detected on
NAME="Communication controller: Agere Systems Unknown device 0620"
CLASS=0780
PCIDEV=11c1:0620
SUBSYS=11c1:0620
IRQ=5
IDENT=Agere.SV2P
For candidate modem in: 00:09.0
0780 Communication controller: Agere Systems Unknown device 0620
Primary device ID: 11c1:0620
Support type needed or chipset: Agere.SV2P
----------------end Softmodem section --------------
Vendor 10b7 3COM Inc. purchased the vendor 12b9 US Robotics modem technology.
Their winmodems have no Linux support. Their controller chipset modems
are supported by the Linux serial drivers.
The PCI id 11c1:0620 modem is Uncertain_support_status.
PCI ID Name Support status
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10b7:1006 3COM 0038TA AC101 - TF Mini-PCI winmodem, not supported
10b7:1007 3COM 3C556 V.90 Mini-PCI winmodem, not supported
12b9:1006 US Robotics 3cp803598 Voice winmodem, not supported
12b9:1007 US Robotics ERL3263A-0 DF GWPCI PC99 winmodem, not supported
12b9:0062 US Robotics erk41926a-0.6 usr 56k serial driver supported
12b9:1008 US Robotics 3cp803598 serial driver supported
====== end 3COM 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
011c11040 AGRSM_RedFlag Softmodem on some High Definition Audio
cards, support only for Red Flag kernel 2.6.21-20
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
AGRSM_RedFlag at At http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/11c11040/
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 DOCs/Agrsm.txt
-------------- end Agere Systems section -------------------
Predictive diagnostics for card in bus 00:0d.0:
Modem chipset detected on
NAME="Serial controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division 56K FaxModem Model 5610 "
CLASS=0700
PCIDEV=12b9:1008
SUBSYS=12b9:00a2
IRQ=16
IDENT=USrobotics.serial
For candidate modem in: 00:0d.0
0700 Serial controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division 56K FaxModem Model 5610
Primary device ID: 12b9:1008
Support type needed or chipset: USrobotics.serial
----------------end Softmodem section --------------
Vendor 10b7 3COM Inc. purchased the vendor 12b9 US Robotics modem technology.
Their winmodems have no Linux support. Their controller chipset modems
are supported by the Linux serial drivers.
The PCI id 12b9:1008 modem is Supported.
PCI ID Name Support status
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10b7:1006 3COM 0038TA AC101 - TF Mini-PCI winmodem, not supported
10b7:1007 3COM 3C556 V.90 Mini-PCI winmodem, not supported
12b9:1006 US Robotics 3cp803598 Voice winmodem, not supported
12b9:1007 US Robotics ERL3263A-0 DF GWPCI PC99 winmodem, not supported
12b9:0062 US Robotics erk41926a-0.6 usr 56k serial driver supported
12b9:1008 US Robotics 3cp803598 serial driver supported
sudo wvdialconf wvtest , should detect the modem. Read
DOCs/Testing.txt
====== end 3COM 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/2.6.24-16-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 n. 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.
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 269256 2007-10-04 15:57 /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)
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
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/DOCs/YourSystem.txt concerning other COMM channels: eth0
Which can interfere with Browser naviagation.
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/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
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base:options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base:options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2
Within any ancient /etc/devfs files:
Within ancient kernel 2.4.n /etc/module.conf files:
--------- end modem support lines --------
