Shimon,
You write:
> At this point the terminal stopped, I did not get a new
ready-message/prompt.
This is perfectly normal and expected.
YOU MUST NOT DO ANYTHING IN THIS TERMINAL, UNTIL YOU WANT TO STOP THE
MODEM DRIVER. AT THAT TIME AND NOT BEFORE, USE CTRL-C TO STOP THE DRIVER.
At this time, before trying to FAX, you must check that your modem works.
Please, while slmodemd is running in its terminal:
Open a new terminal
As root (you can use su to become root, no need to logout), do
wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf
This will find that your modem is /dev/ttySL0
After wvdialconf stops, edit the file /etc/wvdial.conf
You will see a line with Phone
It starts with ; which means it is disabled.
At the same place, add the line
Phone = 048350760
This is a modem at the Technion. Just to check that the modem works.
I am not allowed to supply the username and the password, of course.
Save and exit from the editor.
Now type wvdial
You should see a number of messages including CONNECTED.
This is enough to know that the modem works.
You now can stop wvdial if it did not stop alone, again with CTRL-C, but
do not stop slmodemd
Now you can try faxing making sure that your FAX software is defined for
modem /dev/ttySL0
Or if you do not know how to set the modem for that, you can type
ln -sf /dev/ttySL0 /dev/modem
Your FAX software certainly knows how to use /dev/modem
Jacques
Shimon Lebowitz wrote:
Try that and report back.
I downloaded the two packages you mentioned:
ungrab-winmodem-20080126.tar.gz and slmodem-2.9.11-20080126
I followed the instructions you supplied (thank you, they were very clear!),
and got these responses:
============================================
[root@localhost guest]# modprobe ungrab-winmodem
[root@localhost guest]# modprobe slamr
[root@localhost guest]# slmodemd -c USA /dev/slamr0
SmartLink Soft Modem: version 2.9.11 Dec 2 2008 09:37:17
symbolic link `/dev/ttySL0' -> `/dev/pts/5' created.
modem `slamr0' created. TTY is `/dev/pts/5'
Use `/dev/ttySL0' as modem device, Ctrl+C for termination.
=================================================
At this point the terminal stopped, I did not get a new ready-message/prompt.
Then also look at the fax documentation which is provided in newer
slmodem-2.9.11.X.tar.gz packages.
I also looked at the fax folder in slmodem-2.9.11-20080817.tar.gz
but I did not see anything that helped me.
I tried to send a fax using kdeprintfax (and the efax engine), and got
this error:
====================================
Sending to fax using: /usr/bin/fax NAME="'guest'" DEV='ttySL0'
PAGE='letter' send '0543212296'
'/tmp/kde-guest/kdeprintfax_XJ8OO5oC'
fax: version 0.9001114a7 (30 Jan 2002)
fax: version 0.9001114a7 (30 Jan 2002)
/tmp/kde-guest/kdeprintfax_XJ8OO5oC is postscript...
Now sending fax to T0543212296
/usr/bin/efax: Tue Dec 2 11:13:44 2008 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright
1999 Ed Casas
efax: 13:44 Error: can't open serial port /dev/ttySL0: Permission denied
efax: 13:44 failed -> /tmp/kde-guest/kdeprintfax_XJ8OO5oC.001
efax: 13:44 done, returning 2 (unrecoverable error)
There were errors (see T0543212296.log).
====================================
Are there more steps I missed?
Thank you for your help!
Shimon
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:50 AM, Antonio Olivares
<olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Shimon,
You have done the following right?
The modem is supported by the Smartlink
plus the slmodemd helper utility. Read the
DOCs/Smartlink.txt and Modem/DOCs/YourSystem.txt for follow through guidance.
For 2.6.18.8.tex5 compiling drivers is necessary. As of October 2007
the current packages at
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/ are the
ungrab-winmodem-20070505.tar.gz and slmodem-2.9.11-20080126.tar.gz
If you have not download ungrab-winmodem-20080126.tar.gz and slmodem-2.9.11-20080126 since your kernel is < 2.6.25 or so.
extract them with
$ tar -zxvf slmodem-2.9.11-20080126.tar.gz
$ cd slmodem-2.9.11-20080126
$ make KERNEL_DIR=/lib/modules/2.6.18.8.tex5/build
$ make
$ su
passwd:
# make install
# tar -zxvf ungrab-winmodem-20080126.tar.gz
# cd ungrab-winmodem-20080126
# make
# make install
# exit
$ su -
passwd:
# modprobe ungrab-winmodem
# modprobe slamr
# slmodemd -c USA /dev/slamr0
Try that and report back.
Then also look at the fax documentation which is provided in newer slmodem-2.9.11.X.tar.gz packages.
Regards,
Antonio
--- On Mon, 12/1/08, Shimon Lebowitz <shimonleb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Shimon Lebowitz <shimonleb@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Shimon, Israel kernel 2.6.18.8.tex5
To: "discuss" <discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 4:07 PM
I have spent ages on the web site trying to figure out by
myself what
to do next, but nothing works.
Please help me get my modem to work, I need to send a fax
(NOT to connect to Internet, I do that via ethernet).
I am using PCLinuxOS2007 and my modem is
SmartLink SmartPCI562 56K Modem
Thank you very much!
Shimon
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YourCountry will enable Country specific guidance. Linux
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-------------------------- System information
----------------------------
CPU=i686,
Linux version 2.6.18.8.tex5 (vaughan@localhost) (gcc
version 4.1.1
20060724 (prerelease) (4.1.1-4pclos2007)) #1 SMP Thu May 10
11:36:58
WST 2007
scanModem update of: 2008_11_06
There are no blacklisted modem drivers in /etc/modprobe*
files
Attached USB devices are:
ID 04a5:20b0 Acer Peripherals Inc. (now BenQ Corp.) S2W
3300U/4300U
ID 05e3:0604 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 1.1 Hub
ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
USB modems not recognized
For candidate card in slot 02:0d.0, firmware information
and bootup
diagnostics are:
PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name
---------- --------- --------- --------------
02:0d.0 163c:3052 163c:3052 Modem: Smart Link
Ltd. SmartLink
SmartPCI562 56K Modem
Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 02:0d.0 ----
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0d.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level,
low) -> IRQ 20
0000:02:0d.0: ttyS2 at I/O 0xd408 (irq = 20) is a 16450
0000:02:0d.0: ttyS3 at I/O 0xd410 (irq = 20) is a 8250
Couldn't register serial port 0000:02:0d.0: -28
=== Finished firmware and bootup diagnostics, next deducing
cogent software. ===
Predictive diagnostics for card in bus 02:0d.0:
Modem chipset detected on
NAME="Modem: Smart Link Ltd. SmartLink SmartPCI562 56K
Modem "
CLASS=0703
PCIDEV=163c:3052
SUBSYS=163c:3052
IRQ=20
IDENT=slamr
For candidate modem in: 02:0d.0
0703 Modem: Smart Link Ltd. SmartLink SmartPCI562 56K
Modem
Primary device ID: 163c:3052
Support type needed or chipset: slamr
----------------end Softmodem section --------------
The modem is supported by the Smartlink
plus the slmodemd helper utility. Read the
DOCs/Smartlink.txt and Modem/DOCs/YourSystem.txt for follow
through guidance.
For 2.6.18.8.tex5 compiling drivers is necessary. As of
October 2007
the current packages at
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/ are
the
ungrab-winmodem-20070505.tar.gz and
slmodem-2.9.11-20080126.tar.gz
Writing DOCs/Smartlink.txt
============ end Smartlink section =====================
Completed candidate modem analyses.
The base of the UDEV device file system is: /dev/.udev
Versions adequately match for the compiler installed:
4.1.1
and the compiler used in kernel assembly: 4.1.1
Minimal compiling resources appear complete:
make utility - /usr/bin/make
Compiler version 4.1
linuc_headers base folder
/lib/modules/2.6.18.8.tex5/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 304536 Nov 7 2006
/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.
==========================================================
Checking for modem support lines:
--------------------------------------
/device/modem symbolic link:
slmodemd created symbolic link /dev/ttySL0:
Within /etc/udev/ files:
Within /etc/modprobe.conf files:
Within any ancient /etc/devfs files:
Within ancient kernel 2.4.n /etc/module.conf files:
--------- end modem support lines --------
