Philippe Vouters wrote: > Dear Tapan, > > I see in your mail three different aspects: > > 1/ "Intel 537EP card found" in dmesg. > This sounds good and tells the driver is correctly installed and > recognized your modem as a 537EP modem. > > 2/ "serial8250: too much work for irq21" in dmesg. > The is another driver outputting this. > From: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=28025 > this would suggest not starting ppp on a ttySx terminal. > >> QUOTE> >> > Re: Serial8250: Too much work for IRQ11 > > ________________________________________________________________________ > On my laptop, I get the same message. > I found that by killing the ppp session on ttyS0, the problem goes away. > Now I just need the find where this ppp session is started? > Where is inittab? > >> /QUOTE> >> > If the solution comes from not starting ppp you may edit > your /etc/inittab to prevent ppp from starting, using the Serial8250 > device. > > 3/"efax: 34:13 Error: can't open serial port /dev/537ep: Bad address" > Perform the following commands: > $ ls -l /dev/modem > You should read it points to /dev/537ep device > $ ls /dev/537* > You should read /dev/537ep and /dev/537ep0 > Your efax command you should like: > $ efax -vewinchmart > This automatically opens up /dev/modem. Note that you do not have to > specify a device and /dev/modem is the default. > > Yours sincerely, > - > http://vouters.dyndns.org:8080/ > Philippe Vouters (Fontainebleau/France) > > > Le mercredi 17 juin 2009 à 22:35 +0530, Tapan Chugh a écrit : > >> Philippe Vouters wrote: >> >>> Should I say Dear Tapan or Dear Chugh ? What is your given name ? >>> >>> >From my makefile_537 Makefile script, here is what I can read: >>> intel-536-537/makefile_537: vendor_device_ids[3]="1543:3052";\ >>> >>> Entering the following commands: >>> [philippe@victor ~]$ grep "3052" intel-536-537/coredrv/*.h >>> intel-536-537/coredrv/hamcore.h: #define NEW_SI3052_VENDOR_ID >>> 0x1543 >>> intel-536-537/coredrv/hamcore.h: #define NEW_SI3052_DEVICE_ID >>> 0x3052 >>> intel-536-537/coredrv/hamcore.h: #define SI3052_VENDOR_ID 0x8086 >>> intel-536-537/coredrv/hamcore.h: #define SI3052_DEVICE_ID 0x1080 >>> intel-536-537/coredrv/hamcore.h: #define MDM_PCI_DEVICE_ID 0x3052 >>> [philippe@victor ~]$ grep "1543" intel-536-537/coredrv/*.h >>> intel-536-537/coredrv/hamcore.h: #define NEW_SI3052_VENDOR_ID >>> 0x1543 >>> >>> So your phone modem should be recognized as being a Silicon phone modem >>> board by the Intel 537 driver. >>> >>> I suggest you to go to http://vouters.dyndns.org:8080/Intel site and >>> download the latest driver. You should $ tar -jxvf the downloaded >>> driver. Use efax and dmesg to troubleshoot it. >>> >>> You need to install kernel headers and devel packages prior to build the >>> driver. >>> >>> Yours sincerely, >>> - >>> http://vouters.dyndns.org:8080/ >>> Philippe Vouters (Fontainebleau/France) >>> >>> >>> Le mercredi 17 juin 2009 à 08:49 +0200, Marvin Stodolsky a écrit : >>> >>> >>>> Tapan, >>>> >>>> Sadly, Linux support has not yet been achieved for >>>> 1543:3052 SILICON Laboratories Intel 537 [Winmodem] >>>> though Philippe may guide you in some expreiments >>>> >>>> MarvS >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Tapan Chugh<chugh.tapan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >> Dear Philippe, >> Thanks for helping me. I followed your instructions and installed the >> intel 537. However when i try to test it using efax i get an error message >> >> efax: Wed Jun 17 22:34:13 2009 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas >> efax: Wed Jun 17 22:34:13 2009 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas >> efax: 34:13 compiled Oct 24 2008 10:36:30 >> efax: 34:13 Error: can't open serial port /dev/537ep: Bad address >> efax: 34:13 done, returning 2 (unrecoverable error) >> >> >> also i have pasted the part of dmesg log >> >> Intel 537EP card found >> serial8250: too much work for irq21 >> serial8250: too much work for irq21 >> serial8250: too much work for irq21 >> serial8250: too much work for irq21 >> serial8250: too much work for irq21 >> serial8250: too much work for irq21 >> Unknown device, exiting >> Unknown device, exiting >> Unknown device, exiting >> Unknown device, exiting >> Unknown device, exiting >> Unknown device, exiting >> Unknown device, exiting >> serial8250: too much work for irq21 >> serial8250: too much work for irq21 >> serial8250: too much work for irq21 >> serial8250: too much work for irq21 >> Unknown device, exiting >> >> >> >> > > > Dear Philippe, I found this line interesting in the dmesg log "Couldn't register serial port 0000:04:00.0: -28" also the modem is on 04:00.0 as detected by lspci "04:00.0 Modem: SILICON Laboratories Intel 537 [Winmodem] (rev 04)"
