I've been trying to make heads and tails of ModemData.txt, but I am afraid I
cannot see whether I have a chance to find a driver for my Agere systems
modem plugged to my system. I am running Mandriva 2008.0 which is pretty good
in detecting devices out of the box during installation, so perhaps I even
have a driver installed. I would very much appreciate if you could give me a
hand bearing with me my lack of expertise with Linux which I use as if it was
a Windoze. Tank you
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-------------------------- System information ----------------------------
CPU=i686, Mandriva Linux release 2008.0 (Official) for i586
Kernel 2.6.22.19-desktop-2mdv on a Dual-processor i686 /
Linux version 2.6.22.19-desktop-2mdv (qateam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version
4.2.2 20071128 (prerelease) (4.2.2-3.1mdv2008.0)) #1 SMP Mon May 5 20:55:05
EDT 2008
scanModem update of: 2009_05_12
There are no blacklisted modem drivers in /etc/modprobe* files
Potentially useful modem drivers now loaded are:
Attached USB devices are:
ID 0ace:1211 ZyDAS 802.11b/g USB2 WiFi
ID 058f:9360 Alcor Micro Corp.
ID 03f0:050c Hewlett-Packard 5219 Wireless Keyboard
If a cellphone is not detected, see
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-878554.html
If a USB modem or cellphone is attached and was not detected, please
provide available information in your request to discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
For candidate card in slot 01:0b.0, firmware information and bootup
diagnostics are:
PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name
---------- --------- --------- --------------
01:0b.0 11c1:048c 11c1:044c Communication controller: Agere Systems V.92 56K
WinModem
Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
===================================
The modem interrupt (IRQ) is 255 . IRQs of 0 or 255 are not functional!!
The CPU cannot control the modem until this situation is corrected!!
Possible corrections are:
1) Within the boot up BIOS, change from a Windows to a non-PNP/Other
Operating System type.
Instructions for accessing BIOS are at:
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/resources.html within: Additional
Resourcces.
2a) Add an option "pci=routeirq" to the kernel boot up line.
Here is an example paragraph from /boot/grub/menu.lst :
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-26-686
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-26-686 root=/dev/hda7 ro pci=routeirq
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-26-686
savedefault
2b) Same as above, but use "pollirq" instead of "pci=routeirq".
3) Within some BIOS setups, IRQ assignments can be changed.
4) On non-laptop systems, moving the modem card to another slot has helped.
5) Sometimes upgrading the kernel changes IRQ assignment.
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--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 01:0b.0 ----
=== Finished firmware and bootup diagnostics, next deducing cogent software.
===
Predictive diagnostics for card in bus 01:0b.0:
Modem chipset detected on
NAME="Communication controller: Agere Systems V.92 56K WinModem "
CLASS=0780
PCIDEV=11c1:048c
SUBSYS=11c1:044c
IRQ=255
IDENT=agrsm
For candidate modem in: 01:0b.0
0780 Communication controller: Agere Systems V.92 56K WinModem
Primary device ID: 11c1:048c
Support type needed or chipset: agrsm
The AgereSystems/LSI agrsm code supports compiling of a agrmodem + agrsm
driver pair.
One resource site is
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/11c11040/
Thereat get the agrsm-howto.txt, through the compiling steps are only cogent
to modems
with 11c1:0260, 11c1:048c and 11c1:048f chips. They use the
agrsm-20090418.tar.gz package.
If your Distro uses Debian packages, also get the agrsm-tools.deb package.
For AgereSystems/LSI 11c11040 chip hosted on High Definition Audio cards, your
Linux
Distro's dkms package should be first installed, as it directs the
installation of modem
specific dkms-agrsm resources. For an example of what to expect, read
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-eighth/msg03863.html
The primary dkms-agrsm resource site is
http://linux.zsolttech.com/linmodem/agrsm/
whereat a few differnt packaging types are available. For your convenience
dkms-agrsm-CurrentVersion.deb are also available at to
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/11c11040/
The .deb packages can be manually installed by:
$ dpkg -i dkms*.deb agrsm*.deb
which will sequentially process dkms, dkms-agrsm and the agrsm-tools packages.
Read the DOCs/Agrsm.txt for details.
-------------- 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: 4.2.2
and the compiler used in kernel assembly: 4.2.2
linux-headers-2.6.22.19-desktop-2mdv resources needed for compiling are not
manifestly ready!
If compiling is necessary packages must be installed, providing:
kernel-source-2.6.22.19-desktop-2mdv
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 2007-08-20 16:57 /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)
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 eth1
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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Checking for modem support lines:
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/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:
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