I sent a message yesterday with most of the following information, to the
Discussion.Subscribe address. This is in case that message did not get to
areal person!
In 2007 I had my first experience with linux using ubuntu 6.10 and I had
help from Firas Kraiem to set up the dial up modem. His advice included
instructions for installing the package containing the C compiler and my
kernel headers. Then he told me how to install martian_modem and configure
wvdial. This worked well for ubuntu 6.10, although there were error messages
when installing the build-essential package.
I recently overwrote the 6.10 version with an install of ubuntu 8.04, then
attempted to repeat the dial up modem support installation. Again I received
error messages installing the build-essential package and more error
messages with the martian_modem installation. At the end of the process when
I entered sudo martian-modem the system responded that the command is not
available. I used the martian and martian-full tarballs from 20061203, which
may be one of my mistakes.
Is there a way to ensure that what I have tried so far has not corrupted the
system, or should I start over and re-install ubuntu 8.04?
Can you provide an update on the advice Firas provided May 10, 2007, to walk
me through the dial up modem support installation. Any help will be greatly
appreciated, because I still seem to be a novice with linux and the
implications of some of the steps I go through is not entirely clear. Thank
you for help. The ModemData file follows:
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 2.6.24-19-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 2.6.24-19-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu
4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:43:41 UTC 2008
scanModem update of: 2008_11_06
There are no blacklisted modem drivers in /etc/modprobe* files
Attached USB devices are:
ID 0402:5621 ALi Corp. USB 2.0 Storage Device
ID 04a9:108d Canon, Inc.
USB modems not recognized
For candidate card in slot 00:0c.0, firmware information and bootup
diagnostics are:
PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name
---------- --------- --------- --------------
00:0c.0 11c1:0441 13e0:0410 Communication controller: Agere Systems 56k
WinModem
Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
11: 90740 XT-PIC-XT ehci_hcd:usb4
--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 00:0c.0 ----
[ 35.704332] PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0c.0
=== Finished firmware and bootup diagnostics, next deducing cogent software.
===
Predictive diagnostics for card in bus 00:0c.0:
Modem chipset detected on
NAME="Communication controller: Agere Systems 56k WinModem "
CLASS=0780
PCIDEV=11c1:0441
SUBSYS=13e0:0410
IRQ=11
IDENT=Agere.DSP
For candidate modem in: 00:0c.0
0780 Communication controller: Agere Systems 56k WinModem
Primary device ID: 11c1:0441
Support type needed or chipset: Agere.DSP
----------------end Softmodem section --------------
The modem has a Lucent/Agere/LSI Mars or Apollo DSP (digital signal
processing) chipset.
Support packages for 2.6.n kernels are at:
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/kernel-2.6/martian/
Always use the most update for kernels after 2.6.20, currently
martian-full-20080625.tar.gz
For kernels 2.6.20 and less, usr martian-full-20080407.tar.gz.
See DOCs/AgereDSP.txt for Details.
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 hosted on High Definition Audio cards
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/11c11040/
Compiling resources for a driver module pair: agrmodem.ko + agrserial.ko
Use the agrsm-HDA-20080721-ALSA15.tar.bz2 or agrsm-HDA-20080721.tar.bz2
Read the agrsm_howto.txt. For 11c11040 chips, also the
HOWTO-Agere-11c11040-HDA.html
0x0441 -- Mars 2 - data/fax only
-------------- end Agere Systems 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/2.6.24-19-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 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-- 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/alsa-base:options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base:options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2
/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
Within any ancient /etc/devfs files:
Within ancient kernel 2.4.n /etc/module.conf files:
--------- end modem support lines --------
BrianVoss
