Dear Tapan, Could you send me your full /var/log/messages file ? - http://vouters.dyndns.org:8080/ Philippe Vouters (Fontainebleau/France) Le jeudi 18 juin 2009 à 15:06 +0530, Tapan Chugh a écrit : > Philippe Vouters wrote: > > Dear Tapan, > > > > The message "Couldn't register serial port " in the dmesg log does NOT > > come from the Intel 537 driver but from another driver. > > [philippe@victor ~]$ grep "Couldn't register serial port " > > intel-536-537/* > > [philippe@victor ~]$ grep "Couldn't register serial port " > > intel-536-537/*/*.c > > [philippe@victor ~]$ > > Regards, > > - > > http://vouters.dyndns.org:8080/ > > Philippe Vouters (Fontainebleau/France) > > > > > > Le jeudi 18 juin 2009 à 09:07 +0530, Tapan Chugh a écrit : > > > >> > >> 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)" > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > Dear Philippe, > > The problem is that the modem does not work. The output of all the > commands matches. However efax does not work even now. > > As told by you, > > I executed the command > > efax -vewinchmart > > efax: Thu Jun 18 15:04:33 2009 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas > efax: Thu Jun 18 15:04:33 2009 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas > efax: 04:33 compiled Oct 24 2008 10:36:30 > efax: 04:33 argv[0]=efax > efax: 04:33 argv[1]=-v > efax: 04:33 argv[2]=ewinchmart > efax: 04:33 Error: can't open serial port /dev/modem: Bad address > efax: 04:33 done, returning 2 (unrecoverable error) > > >