----- Original Message -----
From: "Marvin Stodolsky" <marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "ddcc" <d.c.ddcc@xxxxxxxxx>; "Shannon Miller" <swmiller6@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "discuss" <discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: PCTel-0.9.7-9-RHT-10 and HylaFax: Unable to deduce DTE-DCE
speed (kernel 2.6.26-2-486)
ddcc,
Faxes work at 1200, so for fax service you could try -s locking that speed.
Shannon was able to get fax working under Pctel hardware and might
have some suggestion.
Also if you still have the Conexant modem, its code it is much more
update and fax would work at the free 1200 speed.
Separately, I'll spend you some fax info from a successful
inpementation, through you will have to change the port designation to
your case.
MarvS
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:51 AM, ddcc <d.c.ddcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
After finding out that my previous Intel modem didn't work, I have since
tried a Conexant, of which I have refused to pay Linuxant for drivers, and
am now trying a PCTel. scanModem reported that I should use
PCTel-0.9.7-9-RHT-10tar.gz, so I untar'ed that and then installed. I ran
into a problem with a gcc mismatch, so I modified the gcc symlink to point
to gcc-4.1 during the install (instead of 4.3). Everything went well until
I
ran faxaddmodem and then it probed for the speed, outputting:
Probing for best speed to talk to modem: 38400 19200 9600 4800 2400 1200
Unable to deduce DTE-DCE speed; check that you are using the
correct device and/or that your modem is setup properly. If
all else fails, try the -s option to lock the speed.
I'm not quite sure how to proceed from here, although some other Internet
posts suggest forcing 38400 or running 'setserial /dev/ttyS_PCTEL0 uart
16550A port 0xe800 irq 10 autoconfigure. On an aside, 'lspci -v' reports
the
following, of which the <access denied> seems to be a little weird. I've
attached my ModemData.txt, and hope that someone will have some
suggestions.
00:0c.0 Communication controller: PCTel Inc HSP MicroModem 56 (rev 01)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
I/O ports at e800 [size=64]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pctel_hw
Kernel modules: pctel
Thanks,
ddcc
After running 'setserial /dev/ttyS_PCTEL0 uart 16550A port 0xe800 irq 10
autoconfigure', hylafax properly added my PCTel at 38400. From there, I
configured hylafax to use the modem as a class 1 with xsetoffon for flow
control. After messing with faxgetty, I managed to get the system to
properly recieve faxes. As for the issue with <access denied> with both
'lspci -v' and 'cu -l ttyS_PCTEL0', changing the ownership of
/dev/ttyS_PCTEL0 to uucp fixed it.
Thank you guys for all your advice and for the scanModem tool; I doubt I
would have been able to progress from experimenting with the Intel HaM to
getting a working PCTel with fax without linmodems.org.
ddcc
