Jan, South Africa, 2.6.27-7-generic, Agere on Jaunty

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Hi

I have a Ubuntu jaunty laptop. Nothing was detected. I more
or less followed these instructions after scanmodem:
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-nineth/msg01316.html

I installed intrepid kernel and headers 2.6.27-7 and dkms from the intrepid
main repositories. I got agrsm-tools_0.0.1_all.deb and 
dkms-agrsm_2.1.80-7_i386.deb. 

It seemed to make some progress:
root@aims-admin-laptop:~# dmesg |grep Agere
[   71.820368] * Hello Agere Driver **
[   72.908822] Loading module Agere Modem Controller driver version 2.1.80 (2008-10-31)
[   72.914908] ttyAGS3 at I/O 0x4 (irq = 16) is a AgereModem

However agrsm-test fails with:
root@aims-admin-laptop:~# agrsm-test 

Found drivers for boot kernel 2.6.27-7-generic at:
/lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/updates/dkms/agrserial.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/updates/dkms/agrmodem.ko



Loading drivers:

Drivers loaded:
agrserial              19808  0 
agrmodem             1259268  1 
snd                    63268  16 agrmodem,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device

and symbolic link created:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2009-07-22 11:50 /dev/ttySAGR -> /dev/ttyAGS3

Checking for utility wvdialconf
Found /usr/bin/wvdialconf, preparing to run:
	wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf

Modem Port Scan<*1>: S0   S1   S2   S3   
ttySAGR<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- failed with 2400 baud, next try: 9600 baud
ttySAGR<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- failed with 9600 baud, next try: 115200 baud
ttySAGR<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- and failed too at 115200, giving up.

A reboot may be necessary before modem detection through:
	sudo modprobe agrserial
Which will load agrmodem, agrserial and create the symbolic link needed for:
	sudo wvdialconf


The installation record has been written to ./agrsm-test.txt


root@aims-admin-laptop:~# 

I've attached ModemData.txt

Where to from here?

regards,
Jan
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--------------------------  System information ----------------------------
CPU=i686,  
Linux version 2.6.28-13-generic (buildd@vernadsky) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 19:49:51 UTC 2009
 scanModem update of:  2009_07_17

 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 00:14.2, firmware information and bootup diagnostics are:
 PCI slot	PCI ID		SubsystemID	Name
 ----------	---------	---------	--------------
 00:14.2	1002:437b	152d:0766	Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller 

 Modem interrupt assignment and sharing: 
 16:     220113   IO-APIC-fasteoi   HDA Intel
 --- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 00:14.2 ----
[    0.656462] pci 0000:00:14.2: reg 10 64bit mmio: [0xc0400000-0xc0403fff]
[    0.656515] pci 0000:00:14.2: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
[    0.656521] pci 0000:00:14.2: PME# disabled
[   11.451353] HDA Intel 0000:00:14.2: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16

 The PCI slot 00:14.2 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: ALC861VD Analog : ALC861VD Analog : playback 1 : capture 1

about /proc/asound/cards:
------------------------
 0 [SB             ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
                      HDA ATI SB at 0xc0400000 irq 16

 PCI slot 00:14.2 has a High Definition Audio Card
 The drivers are in the kernel modules tree at:
 /lib/modules/2.6.28-13-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: 0x152d1701
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 00:14.2:
	Modem chipset  detected on
NAME="Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller "
CLASS=0403
PCIDEV=1002:437b
SUBSYS=152d:0766
IRQ=16
HDA=1002:437b
SOFT=1002:437b.HDA
HDAchipVendorID=11c1
CHIP=0x11c11040
IDENT=agrsm
Driver=agrsm

 For candidate modem in:  00:14.2
   0403 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller 
      Primary device ID:  1002:437b
    Subsystem PCI_id  152d:0766 
    Softmodem codec or chipset from diagnostics: 0x11c11040
                               from    Archives: 
                        The HDA card softmodem chip is 0x11c11040
      

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 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 detailed instructions for Ubuntu Jaunty with 2.6.28 kernels, see http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-nineth/msg01316.html

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


 
 Minimal compiling resources appear complete:
   make utility - /usr/bin/make
   Compiler version 4.3
   linuc_headers base folder /lib/modules/2.6.28-13-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 pppd properties:
	-rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 277352 2009-02-20 19:25 /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)
        sudo chmod a+x /usr/sbin/pppd
or under Ubuntu related Linuxes
	sudo chmod a+x /usr/sbin/pppd

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/alsa-base.conf:options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf:options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2
/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
     Within any ancient /etc/devfs files:

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

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


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