Notebook Toshiba Satellite L30 with Agere softmodem
OS: Ubuntu 8.04,
kernel version 2.6.24-22-386
I see from ModemData.txt (attached) that
I have to use the agrmodem + agrserial + (patched) snd-hda-intel
Following the instructions in
http://linmodems.technion.ac.
il/packages/ltmodem/11c11040/HOWTO-Agere-11c11040-HDA.html
with
ALSA
version: 1.0.16
I patch the file hda_codec.c but agrsm-HDA-20080721.
tar.bz2 does not compile.
So, following the footnote, I borrow the
content of alsa-driver-1.0.16/alsa-kernel/pci/hda/
from the tarball of
the version 1.0.15. Patch the hda_codec.c file and compile the drivers
successfully (note however that the module has underscores instead of
minuses, namely
sda_hda_intel). The modules are loaded and the
/dev/ttyAGS3 is created but
wvdialconf reports "Sorry, no modem was
detected!"
Should I use setserial?
If I issue ln -sf /dev/ttyAGS3
/dev/ttyS3
wvdialconf reports the following
ttyS3<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 --
failed with 2400 baud, next try: 9600 baud
ttyS3<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 --
failed with 9600 baud, next try: 115200 baud
ttyS3<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 --
and failed too at 115200, giving up.
Sorry, no modem was detected!
Is it in use by another program?
Did you configure it properly with
setserial?
Please read the FAQ at http://open.nit.ca/wiki/?WvDial
>From the latter wiki I get no useful informations, so I need help.
Thanks for your time
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-------------------------- System information ----------------------------
CPU=i686,
Linux version 2.6.24-22-386 (buildd@vernadsky) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 Mon Nov 24 17:51:53 UTC 2008
scanModem update of: 2009_01_03
The modem symbolic link is /dev/modem -> ttySL0
There are no blacklisted modem drivers in /etc/modprobe* files
Attached USB devices are:
ID 04e8:0110 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Connect3D Flash Drive
ID 045e:00a4 Microsoft Corp.
USB modems not recognized
For candidate card in slot 00:14.2, firmware information and bootup diagnostics are:
PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name
---------- --------- --------- --------------
00:14.2 1002:437b 1179:ff31 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller
Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
17: 37395506 IO-APIC-fasteoi HDA Intel
--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 00:14.2 ----
[ 42.493227] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
===== Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) diagnostics =====
The ALSA packages provide audio support and also drivers for some modems.
ALSA diagnostics are written during bootup to /proc/asound/ folders.
The ALSA verion is 1.0.16
The modem cards detected by "aplay -l" are:
scheda 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], dispositivo 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
The /proc/asound/pcm file reports:
-----------------------
00-06: Si3054 Modem : Si3054 Modem : playback 1 : capture 1
00-00: ALC861VD Analog : ALC861VD Analog : playback 1 : capture 2
about /proc/asound/cards:
------------------------
0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
HDA ATI SB at 0xc0400000 irq 17
PCI slot 00:14.2 has a High Definition Audio Card
The drivers are in the kernel modules tree at:
/lib/modules/2.6.24.3/misc/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.24-22-386/ubuntu/sound/alsa-driver/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko
The modem codec file for the HDA card is: /proc/asound/card0/codec#1
--------------------------------------------------------
Codec: Generic 11c1 Si3054
Address: 1
Vendor Id: 0x11c11040
Subsystem Id: 0x11790001
Revision Id: 0x100200
Modem Function Group: 0x1
The audio card hosts a softmodem chip: 0x11c11040
If not a Conexant modem, the driver agrsm with its dependent drivers:
snd_hda_intel 293920 8 agrmodem
snd_pcm 75400 6 snd_atiixp_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 10504 3 snd_atiixp_modem,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 9476 1 snd_hda_intel
snd 54692 26 snd_rtctimer,agrmodem,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
----------
provide audio + modem support with the modem chip residing on the subsystem.
Any particular card can host any one of several soft modem chips.
=== Finished firmware and bootup diagnostics, next deducing cogent software. ===
Predictive diagnostics for card in bus 00:14.2:
Modem chipset detected on
NAME="Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller "
CLASS=0403
PCIDEV=1002:437b
SUBSYS=1179:ff31
IRQ=17
HDA=1002:437b
SOFT=1002:437b.HDA
CHIP=0x11c11040
IDENT=11c11040
SLMODEMD_DEVICE=hw:0,6
Driver=agrmodem+agrserial+patched_snd-hda-intel
For candidate modem in: 00:14.2
0403 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller
Primary device ID: 1002:437b
Subsystem PCI_id 1179:ff31
Softmodem codec or chipset from diagnostics: 0x11c11040
from Archives:
The HDA card softmodem chip is 0x11c11040
Support type needed or chipset: 11c11040
----------------end Softmodem section --------------
LSI/AgereSystems produces several modem chipsets produces several chipsets supported by
an agrsm software packages. This includes some modems identifiable by their PCI IDs and
others requiring ALSA diagnostics to recognize the chip, such as the 11c11040 chip hosted
on the Subsystems of many High Definition Audio cards.
There are support packages at http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/11c11040/
The agrsm-tools package supports driver autoloading, but does not itself contain drivers.
For Debian/Ubuntu related distros, there are a few kernel-version specific packages:
agrsm-2.6.27-7-generic_2.6.27-7.14_i386.deb
agrsm-2.6.27-9-generic_2.6.27-9.14_i386.deb
are respectively for systems with Ubuntu 2.6.27-7-generic and 2.6.27-7-generic kernels.
agrsm-ubuntu8.04.1-2.6.24-19-generic.tar.gz is for 2.6.24-19-generic kernels.
The currently used agrsm code is from updates at http://linux.zsolttech.com/linmodem/
see an example at: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-eighth/msg03863.html
Read the Modem/DOCs/Agrsm.txt
-------------- 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: 4.2.4
linux-headers-2.6.24-22-386 resources needed for compiling are not manifestly ready!
If compiling is necessary packages must be installed, providing:
linux-headers-2.6.24-22-386
Compressed files at: /usr/src/agrsm-HDA-20080721-ALSA15.tar.bz2 /usr/src/alsa-driver-1.0.16.tar.bz2 /usr/src/alsa-driver.tar.bz2 /usr/src/cdfs.tar.bz2 /usr/src/comedi.tar.bz2 /usr/src/em8300.tar.bz2 /usr/src/fuse.tar.bz2 /usr/src/gpib.tar.bz2 /usr/src/ivtv.tar.bz2 /usr/src/kqemu.tar.bz2 /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.24.tar.bz2 /usr/src/linux-wlan-ng.tar.bz2 /usr/src/nozomi-source.tar.bz2 /usr/src/openswan-modules.tar.bz2 /usr/src/ov511.tar.bz2 /usr/src/ppscsi.tar.bz2 /usr/src/realtime-lsm.tar.bz2 /usr/src/rt2400.tar.bz2 /usr/src/rt2500.tar.bz2 /usr/src/rt2570.tar.bz2 /usr/src/rtai-source.tar.bz2 /usr/src/squashfs.tar.bz2 /usr/src/sysprof-module.tar.bz2 /usr/src/unicorn.tar.bz2 /usr/src/unionfs.tar.bz2 /usr/src/zaptel.tar.bz2 /usr/src/zd1211.tar.bz2
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 21:57 /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 wlan0 wmaster0
Which can interfere with Browser naviagation.
Don't worry about the following, it is for experts should trouble shooting be necessary.
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# start/stop the daemon when the USB modem is connected
KERNEL=="slusb[0-9]*", GROUP="dialout", RUN+="/etc/init.d/sl-modem-daemon"
Checking for modem support lines:
--------------------------------------
/device/modem symbolic link: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2009-01-06 23:26 /dev/modem -> ttySL0
slmodemd created symbolic link /dev/ttySL0:
Within /etc/udev/ files:
/etc/udev/rules.d/030_sl-modem-daemon.rules:# start/stop the daemon when the USB modem is connected
/etc/udev/rules.d/030_sl-modem-daemon.rules:KERNEL=="slusb[0-9]*", GROUP="dialout", RUN+="/etc/init.d/sl-modem-daemon"
/etc/udev/sl-modem-daemon.rules:# start/stop the daemon when the USB modem is connected
/etc/udev/sl-modem-daemon.rules:KERNEL=="slusb[0-9]*", GROUP="dialout", RUN+="/etc/init.d/sl-modem-daemon"
Within /etc/modprobe.conf files:
/etc/modprobe.d/sl-modem-daemon.modutils:install slamr modprobe --ignore-install ungrab-winmodem ; modprobe --ignore-install slamr; test -e /dev/slamr0 || (/bin/mknod -m 660 /dev/slamr0 c 242 0 2>/dev/null && chgrp dialout /dev/slamr0)
/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:
/etc/modules:snd-atiixp-modem
/etc/modules:agrmodem
/etc/modules.old:snd-atiixp-modem
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