Firstly, my apologies for not joing the mailing list, I had some issues in trying to do this, though I have done everything else asked of me.
Okay, so I am trying to get my Motorola SM56 dial up modem recognised under Mandriva, and then dial out to my UK ISP. KPPP times out on attempts I have made.
I have since: loaded ungrab-winmodem and slamr0 drivers, but with an error when running slmodemd (dev /dev/slamr0: no such device error), and before this, 'wrapped' the smserial.inf device driver with ndiswrapper - no success.
I am aware there is a SM56 driver available, but it needs to be compiled in an earlier kernel version than Mandriva's to work.
I hope the modemscan results will yeild something, and so thankyou in advance for any direction you might give me.
Stuart
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-------------------------- System information ----------------------------
CPU=i686, Mandriva Linux release 2008.0 (Official) for i586
Kernel 2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv on an i686 /
Linux version 2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv (lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.2.2 20070909 (prerelease) (4.2.2-0.RC.1mdv2008.0)) #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 03:58:17 CEST 2007
scanModem update of: 2008_09_28
There are no blacklisted modem drivers in /etc/modprobe* files
Attached USB devices are:
ID 15ca:00c3
ID 10d6:1101 Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd
USB modems not recognized
For candidate card in slot 02:0a.0, firmware information and bootup diagnostics are:
PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name
---------- --------- --------- --------------
02:0a.0 1057:5608 1057:0000 Communication controller: Motorola Wildcard X100P
Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
9: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 02:0a.0 ----
=== Finished firmware and bootup diagnostics, next deducing cogent software. ===
Completed candidate modem analyses.
The base of the UDEV device file system is: /dev/.udev
Versions adequately match for the compiler installed: 4.2.2
and the compiler used in kernel assembly: 4.2.2
Minimal compiling resources appear complete:
make utility - /usr/bin/make
Compiler version 4.2
linuc_headers base folder /lib/modules/2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv/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 needed. 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-t 1 root root 317284 2007-10-08 22:52 /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
lock
noauth
noipdefault
usepeerdns
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.
==========================================================
M slamr0 c 242 0
M slamr1 c 242 1
M slusb0 c 243 0
M slusb1 c 243 1
Checking for modem support lines:
--------------------------------------
/device/modem symbolic link:
slmodemd created symbolic link /dev/ttySL0:
Within /etc/udev/ files:
/etc/udev/rules.d/00-hsf.rules:KERNEL=="ttySHSF0", SYMLINK="modem"
/etc/udev/rules.d/00-hcfpci.rules:KERNEL=="ttySHCF0", SYMLINK="modem"
Within /etc/modprobe.conf files:
Within any ancient /etc/devfs files:
Within ancient kernel 2.4.n /etc/module.conf files:
/etc/modules.conf:alias /dev/modem /dev/ttySHSF
/etc/modules.conf:alias /dev/modem /dev/ttySHCF
--------- end modem support lines --------
