Hi,
IIRC, most Linux systems have a modem or dialout group expressly for
this purpose :)
Bjorn.
Lee H wrote:
Just wanted to add that /etc/rc.d/rc.modules is a common place to load
modules with a Slackware, or a Slackware based distro. I believe several
others use this file as well.
a /etc/rc.d/rc.modules entry could look like this:
/sbin/modprobe agrmodem
/sbin/modprobe agrserial
Jephrey,
You may want to consider creating a udev rule to set "user friendly" permissions
and create a symlink to /dev/modem when the modules are loaded.
Many modem related softwares look there by default.
KERNEL=="ttyAGS3", NAME="%k", MODE="0660", GROUP="users", SYMLINK="modem"
Edit GROUP="users" to your distros default group (maybe uucp?).
"users" is good enough for my single user machine.
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:07:36 -0400 (EDT)
Bjorn Wielens <uniacke1@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
There goes my theory that sysconfig is global across
distros... I use SuSE, which doesn't have
/etc/modules.
Sure, feel free to point anyone and everyone to this
info, the more people we can convince to go Linux, the
better :) - hardware support is a BIG issue.
Bjorn.
--- Jephrey Wodebo <psychoscorpic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks, Bjorn
Rather typically with Ubuntu, I don't have a
sysconfig (only found two
python bits with that name)
Ubuntu does have /etc/modules which currently has in
it:
fuse
lp
init.d appears to be a boot-time script that runs
whatever is found in
/etc/modules.
So I added:
agrmodem
agrserial
Rebooted
Yes! /dev/ttyAGR3 exists!
WvDial . . . Yes! (after editing to point to
ttyAGR3) it dials & connects!
Whohoo!
Awesome stuff.
Thanks so much, Bjorn.
(I'm going to add these notes to my query on Ubuntu
Forums, and credit you,
if that's OK)
2008/8/20 Bjorn Wielens <uniacke1@xxxxxxxx>
Hi,
There's a file in /etc/sysconfig that you can
edit, I
have my modules loading at boot too :)
Beware- your distro may have other ways of letting
you
do this through a GUI or so, but I chose the
sysconfig
method since it is fairly universal across
distros.
Edit /etc/sysconfig/kernel and find the line
MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT and add "agrmodem
agrserial" to
the line (mine is MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="agrmodem
agrserial".
Restart your machine and they will be
automatically
loaded, you can then point your dialler to
/dev/ttyAGS3.
Bjorn.
--- Jephrey Wodebo <psychoscorpic@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hey Bjorn
Since you so eagerly assume the mantle of
"Unofficial 11c11040 maintainer" .
. . ;8-P
I have managed over the past week to get my
11c11040
to run - but only per
session.
How does one set things up to have it
permanently
recognised? (i.e. to load
the driver at boot, so we can just dial (I use
PPP)
as soon as it has booted
up)
Geoff
2008/8/20 Bjorn Wielens <uniacke1@xxxxxxxx>
Hi Lee,
Some people have reported success using
Hylafax,
since
apparently Efax can be very picky config-wise.
IIRC someone did e-mail the list reporting
success
faxing with 11c11040 modems.
You can search the archive at
linmodems.technion.ac.il
I would otherwise forward you the e-mail, but
I am
at
a conference, and as such do not have access
to my
full e-mail archive.
Bjorn. (Unofficial 11c11040 maintainer :) )
--- Lee H <mylists.lee.hert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello fine people,
I've been checking with the mailing list via
the
web
archives since
April. I signed up just a few days ago so I
may
voice my thanks for all
those involved with getting the 11c11040
(Agere)
chipset running with
Linux.
Although I have a nice broadband connection,
it's
satisfying to know
that I have the option of connecting via
dialup
if
needed. And of
course the thrill of nearly 100% of this
laptops
hardware supported.
Especially the modem. Not many Linux users
in my
group of friends can
say that. :)
I'm not asking for help with faxing. I know
that
is
not what this list
is about. I'm merely stating faxing does
not
work
for me. Resulting
in hard lock ups with any attempt to connect
to
the
modem via efax or
efax-gtk. In defense of the hardware, this
could be
a error on my part
as I have limited Linux faxing experience. I
haven't
been able to find
confirmation on this list whether or not
faxing
has
been successful,
only that it's not clear if the pre-compiled
Red
Flag Linux binary was
built with faxing support. I did see users
mentioning they will
attempt to test, but no followups. So for
the
archives... I believe
faxing is not supported at this time. :)
I do have hopes that "those smarter then
me",
will
find a way to get
faxing supported for this modem in the
future as
that feature will
prove very useful to me.
I would like to add that I deviated from the
instruction found in
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/11c11040/HOWTO-Agere-11c11040-HDA.html
As my custom kernel needed matching
alsa-drivers
compiled for it
anyway, I merely modified the
alsa-driver-1.0.17/alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
in the alsa sources
rather then the kernel sources. This saved
me
from
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