Joshua, I recommended those to see that the driver was indeed loaded but did not go all the way with # lsmod | grep 'agrserial' and/or # lsmod | grep 'agrmodem' I can do these and see output in my 11c1:0630 agrsm supported modem: olivares@darkstar:~$ dmesg | grep 'agr.*driver*' olivares@darkstar:~$ dmesg | grep 'agr.*' agrmodem: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. olivares@darkstar:~$ dmesg | grep 'agr*' ftrace: allocating 32587 entries in 64 pages highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages NTFS driver 2.1.29 [Flags: R/W]. SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=3 GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.05 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.02.002. 3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.013. Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. scsi8 : usb-storage 1-8:1.0 ACPI Warning for \_TZ_.THRM._PSL: Return Package type mismatch at index 0 - found [NULL Object Descriptor], expected Reference (20091214/nspredef-1040) ACPI: Expecting a [Reference] package element, found type 0 Linux agpgart interface v0.103 agrmodem: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. Loading module Agere Modem Controller driver version 2.1.80-Red Flag NE 5.0 (2007-10-1) Loading module Agere Modem Interface driver version 2.1.80.0Red Flag 5.0 NE (2007-10-01) usb 1-7: Product: Mass Storage scsi9 : usb-storage 1-7:1.0 usb 1-7: Product: Mass Storage scsi10 : usb-storage 1-7:1.0 Unloading Agere Modem Interface driver: version 2.1.80.0Red Flag 5.0 NE Unloading Agere Modem Controller driver: version 2.1.80-Red Flag NE 5.0 Loading module Agere Modem Controller driver version 2.1.80-Red Flag NE 5.0 (2007-10-1) Loading module Agere Modem Interface driver version 2.1.80.0Red Flag 5.0 NE (2007-10-01) olivares@darkstar:~$ I load the driver then unload it, and load it again when I try to connect. Regards, Antonio On 3/14/10, Joshua Gordon Crawford <jgcrawford@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 15 March 2010 02:25, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Robin, >> >> What does output of >> # lsmod | grep 'agr*' >> show? >> >> and output of >> # dmesg | grep 'agr*' >> >> show? > > Antonio, grep uses regex (regular expressions), not globbing (which is > what the shell uses). > > In regex, '*' means "0 or more of the previous character", so 'agr*' > matches 'ag', 'agr', 'agrr', 'agrrrrrrrrr', etc. Thus Robin's output > contained every line with 'ag' in it. > > The globbing you're attempting here is actually the way regex works by > default. "grep 'agr'" finds any line containing the sequence 'agr' no > matter what else is on that line. > > If you need a wildcard, you have to use '.', which matches any > character once, followed by '*'. E.g., "grep agr.*driver" would find > the line "agrserial: Loading module Agere Modem Interface driver > version 2.1.60.0.Linspire (2005-11-16)" > > HTH, > -- > Joshua Crawford ... http://geocities.com/mortarn > > http://www.rewardscentral.com.au/Join/Default.aspx?refer=mortarn > Be rewarded! Join RewardsCentral today! >