Modem help for a new Linux user

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Hi all, very confused about where to go next. Tried googling agrsm and 0x11c11040 from what I could understand of the ModemData.txt file, but didn't find any clear answers. Distribution is Kubuntu 9.04 if that matters.

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--------------------------  System information ----------------------------
CPU=i686, Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009
scanModem update of:  2009_07_02

The dialer utility package WVDIAL does not appear to be installed on your System.
Please read Modem/DOCs/wvdial.txt

There are no blacklisted modem drivers in /etc/modprobe*  files
Potentially useful modem drivers now loaded are:
snd_hda_intel
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 00:1b.0, firmware information and bootup diagnostics are:
PCI slot    PCI ID        SubsystemID    Name
----------    ---------    ---------    --------------
00:1b.0 8086:284b 1025:0136 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H

Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
22:        864   IO-APIC-fasteoi   HDA Intel
--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 00:1b.0 ----
[    0.528129] pci 0000:00:1b.0: reg 10 64bit mmio: [0x58300000-0x58303fff]
[    0.528172] pci 0000:00:1b.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
[    0.528177] pci 0000:00:1b.0: PME# disabled
[ 10.493326] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[   10.493406] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64

The PCI slot 00:1b.0 of the modem card may be disabled early in
a bootup process,  but then enabled later. If modem drivers load
but the modem is not responsive, read DOCs/Bootup.txt about possible fixes.
Send dmesg.txt along with ModemData.txt to discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
if help is needed.



===== 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 1.0.18
The modem cards detected by "aplay -l"  are: None


The /proc/asound/pcm file reports:
-----------------------
00-00: ALC268 Analog : ALC268 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1

about /proc/asound/cards:
------------------------
0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                     HDA Intel at 0x58300000 irq 22

PCI slot 00:1b.0 has a High Definition Audio Card
The drivers are in the kernel modules tree at:
/lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko
The modem codec file for the HDA card is: /proc/asound/card0/codec#1
--------------------------------------------------------
Codec: LSI ID 1040
Address: 1
Vendor Id: 0x11c11040
Subsystem Id: 0x10250136
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:

----------
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 00:1b.0:
   Modem chipset  detected on
NAME="Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H "
CLASS=0403
PCIDEV=8086:284b
SUBSYS=1025:0136
IRQ=22
HDA=8086:284b
SOFT=8086:284b.HDA
HDAchipVendorID=11c1
CHIP=0x11c11040
IDENT=agrsm
Driver=agrsm

For candidate modem in:  00:1b.0
  0403 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H
     Primary device ID:  8086:284b
   Subsystem PCI_id  1025:0136
   Softmodem codec or chipset from diagnostics: 0x11c11040
                              from    Archives:
                       The HDA card softmodem chip is 0x11c11040
Support type needed or chipset:    agrsm


Writing DOCs/Intel.txt

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 and one of the agrsm-tools packages.
The initial agrsm_howto.txt compiling steps are only cogent to modems with PCI IDs:
  11c1:0620, 11c1:048c and 11c1:048f chips.
  They use the agrsm-20090418.tar.gz package.
The agrsm-tools sets a useful symbolic link and a agrsm-test utlity

For AgereSystems/LSI with Vendor 11c1 chips hosted on High Definition Audio cards, there may be support through the agrsm resources (providing an agrmodem + agrserial driver pair) as an alternative to usage of the snd-hda-intel driver + slmodemd helper. For the 11c11040 modem chip, ONLY the agrsm code is competent. Your Linux distro's dkms package should be first installed, as it directs the installation of modem specific dkms-agrsm resources, and also directs auto-installation of new drivers upon kernel upgrades.

Currently, the dkms-agrsm code is NOT competent for 2.26.28 and later kernels. A short term fix is to install linux-image + linux-headers packages for earlier kernels. For example, for Ubuntu Jaunty with 2.6.28 kernels, linux-image + linux-headers packages for earlier 2.26.27 series Intrepid kernels can be installed. Search for them at:
  http://packages.ubuntu.com


The primary dkms-agrsm resource site is http://linux.zsolttech.com/linmodem/agrsm/ whereat a few different packaging types are available. Debian type installers (supporting Ubuntu too) are copied to http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/11c11040/ . Thereat the current package is the dkms-agrsm_2.1.80-6_i386.deb is for Agere/LSI chipsets hosted on High Definition Audio cards. Read the Modem/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: 4.3.3
            and the compiler used in kernel assembly: 4.3.3

The patch utility is needed and is needed for compiling ALSA drivers, and possibly others.


Minimal compiling resources appear complete:
  make utility - /usr/bin/make
  Compiler version 4.3
  linuc_headers base folder /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/build

However some compilations and executable functions may need additional files, in the FileNames.h (so called kernel "h"eaders) collection installed in /usr/include/ . For martian_modem, additional required packages are needed. The also required headers of package libc6 are commonly installed by default. Compiling hsfmodem drivers does require linux-libc-dev and libc6-dev packages, for kernels 2.6.24 and later versions. In not included on your install CD, search for them at http://packages.ubuntu.com
or comparable Repository for other Linux distros.
When compiling ALSA drivers, the utility "patch" will also be needed.




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 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.
==========================================================

Checking for modem support lines:
--------------------------------------
/device/modem symbolic link: slmodemd created symbolic link /dev/ttySL0: Within /etc/udev/ files:

    Within /etc/modprobe.conf files:
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-modem.conf:# Uncomment these entries in order to blacklist unwanted modem drivers
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-modem.conf:# blacklist snd-atiixp-modem
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-modem.conf:# blacklist snd-via82xx-modem
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf:options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf:options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2
    Within any ancient /etc/devfs files:

    Within ancient kernel 2.4.n /etc/module.conf files:

--------- end modem support lines --------

Hoping someone could point me in the direction of a driver! Thanks in advance.

Russell

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