Carlos, Setserial is not appropriate to Winmodems such as Intel537 After loading the driver: $ sudo modprobe Intel537 set a symbolic link $ sudo ln -s /dev/537 /dev/modem Then try to detect the modem with $ sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf If detected, remove the ; <> symbols and replace with your personal information $ sudo gedit /etc/wvdial.conf Then try to dial out with $ sudo wvdial MarvS On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Carlos Marcano <c.marcano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, John. > > Althought I can't really help you with your particular problem, I > think you might get some info from this link: > > <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DialupModemHowto/Intel537EP> > > Regards, > > Carlos. > > 2008/11/14 John Lee <sowberry@xxxxxxxxx>: >> First tried linux a few months ago. Want to run VMware 1.x for WinME >> support, last supported in ubuntu 6.06, so installed from ubuntu.com >> on old Dell P3. Low-end machine, so installed server as >> easy minimal install (no X). >> >> Based on scanmodem output, I first tried >> http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/intel/Philippe.Vouters/intel-537EP_secure-2.60.80.0_2008_03_22.tar.bz2 >> (seemed like latest available). Compiled and installed smoothly >> (showed up in lsmod). cu -l /dev/modem results in "soft lockup on >> CPU#0." setserial -agv /dev/modem returns garbage. /proc/interrupts >> doesn't show anything for IRQ 3 (which should be the modem, based on >> lspci). fwiw, nothing shows up for IRQ 4 either, which should be >> COM1/ttyS0 (although setserial -agv /dev/ttyS0 looks ok). >> >> Saw warning against SMP on uniprocessor machine in >> http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/intel/Philippe.Vouters/Intel-Readme.txt, >> and 2.6.15-51-server had SMP enabled by default, so downloaded >> 2.6.15.7 from kernel.org (linux-source-2.6.15 somehow unavailable from >> dapper repository), ran make config to disable SMP (see attached). >> Rebuilt kernel does a little better, as now I see this in dmesg: >> >> [42949806.940000] sound disabled >> [42949806.940000] Intel 537 card found >> [42949836.380000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 3 >> [42949836.380000] PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered >> [42949836.380000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] >> -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3 >> [42949836.400000] 537: Loaded >> >> whereas before the last thing would be "Intel 537 card found." So it >> seems to me that there is still a disconnect between the cpu and >> driver. I tried passing irq=3 via /etc/modprobe.d/options, but got >> unrecognized parameter error in dmesg. I tried pci=routeirq in grub, >> but no difference. I saw reports of 537 failures in ubuntu edgy, so I >> thought maybe I'd try a previous version (contemporary with dapper). >> http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/intel/Philippe.Vouters/intel-537EP_secure-2.60.80.1_16_07_2006.tgz >> produced same results (soft lockup). I don't know what else to try. >> >
