Francois When there is a failure,with root permission, unload the driver modprobe -r snd-intel8x0mreload the driver modprobe snd-intel8x0m and retry a dialout. It is common for modem drivers to lose functional while loaded.Unloading and reloading usually cures this situation. MarvS On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 6:07 AM, François Patte<francois.patte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----> Hash: SHA1>> Jacques Goldberg a écrit :>> Francois,>> For debugging purposes (in real life too, but it does not mock up>> Windows, so etc...) we recomment to use wvdial>> Problem is the same whatever the dialer I use.>> Here is the result of scanmodem (and wvdial.conf).>> I tried to use scanmodem twice: once when the modem works, once when it> doesn't; the difference is the order of dependency of snd modules:>> when it doesn't work:>> < snd_ac97_codec 93413 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m> < snd_pcm 70981 6> snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss> < snd 48325 21> snd_intel8x0,snd_seq_dummy,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer> < snd_page_alloc 11593 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_pcm>> when it works:>>> snd_ac97_codec 93413 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0>> snd_pcm 70981 6> snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss>> snd 48325 21> snd_intel8x0m,snd_seq_dummy,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer>> snd_page_alloc 11593 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm>>> You can see that when it works, the snd_intel8x0m module is the first> one in the dependencies listed, while when it doesn't work, it is the> snd_intel8x0 module.>>> I don't now if it is the main problem, and I don't know how to force the> priority of module dependencies....>>> I recall that my problem is not: my modem is not working, but sometimes> it works (well) sometimes it doesn't and, in that case, the modem> doesn't send anything on the phone line.>> Thanks for helping.>> - --> François Patte> UFR de mathématiques et informatique> Université Paris Descartes> 45, rue des Saints Pères> F-75270 Paris Cedex 06> Tél. +33 (0)1 44 55 35 61> http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----> Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)> Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org>> iD8DBQFIlDFHdE6C2dhV2JURAtEBAJ9MIkdq0v+P0EuGfeVwKHGJYFwI6ACgiKRW> rWOYtqlVHU4uyq2Oq+kzEZI=> =S9Zu> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----->