Only plain text email is forwarded by the Discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx List Server, as HTML can contain viruses. Use as the email Subject Line: YourName, YourCountry kernel 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 With this Subject Line cogent experts will be alerted, and useful case names left in the Archive. YourCountry will enable Country specific guidance. Linux experts in YourCountry can be found through: http://www.linux.org/groups/index.html. They will know your Country's modem code, which may be essential for dialup service. Responses from Discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are sometimes blocked by an Internet Provider mail filters. So in a day, also check the Archived responses at http://www.linmodems.org -------------------------- System information ---------------------------- CPU=i686, fedora , ALSA_version=1.0.12 Linux version 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 (brewbuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.1 20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-30)) #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:54:20 EDT 2006 scanModem update of: 2010_05_29 /etc/lsb-release not found Presently install your Linux Distributions dkms package. It provides for automated driver updates, following upgrade of your kernel. For details see http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#dkms There are no blacklisted modem drivers in /etc/modprobe* files Potentially useful modem drivers now loaded are: Attached USB devices are: ID 0781:5151 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Micro 256/512MB Flash Drive If a cellphone is not detected, see http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-878554.html A sample report is: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-nineth/msg00578.html If a USB modem or cellphone is attached and was not detected, please provide available information in your request to discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Candidate PCI devices with modem chips are: 02:03.0 Communication controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division WinModem High Definition Audio cards can host modem chips. For candidate card in slot 02:03.0, firmware information and bootup diagnostics are: PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name ---------- --------- --------- -------------- 02:03.0 12b9:1006 12b9:007f Communication controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division WinModem Modem interrupt assignment and sharing: 15: 97874 97594 IO-APIC-edge ide1 --- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 02:03.0 ---- === Finished firmware and bootup diagnostics, next deducing cogent software. === Predictive diagnostics for card in bus 02:03.0: Modem chipset detected on NAME="Communication controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division WinModem" CLASS=0780 PCIDEV=12b9:1006 SUBSYS=12b9:007f IRQ=5 IDENT=3COM.winmodem For candidate modem in: 02:03.0 0780 Communication controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division WinModem Primary device ID: 12b9:1006 Support type needed or chipset: 3COM.winmodem Under Linux 2.6.n kernels, the chipset is NOT SUPPORTED . Read DOCs/InfoGeneral.txt about alternatives. Vendor 10b7 3COM Inc. purchased the vendor 12b9 US Robotics modem technology. Their winmodems have no Linux support. Their controller chipset modems are supported by the Linux serial drivers. The PCI id 12b9:1006 modem is Not_Supported. PCI ID Name Support status ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10b7:1006 3COM 0038TA AC101 - TF Mini-PCI winmodem, not supported 10b7:1007 3COM 3C556 V.90 Mini-PCI winmodem, not supported 12b9:1006 US Robotics 3cp803598 Voice winmodem, not supported 12b9:1007 US Robotics ERL3263A-0 DF GWPCI PC99 winmodem, not supported 12b9:0062 US Robotics erk41926a-0.6 usr 56k serial driver supported 12b9:1008 US Robotics 3cp803598 serial driver supported ====== end 3COM section ======= Completed candidate modem analyses. The base of the UDEV device file system is: /dev/.udev Versions adequately match for the compiler installed: 4.1.1 and the compiler used in kernel assembly: 4.1.1 linux-headers-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 resources needed for compiling are not manifestly ready! If compiling is necessary packages must be installed, providing: 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: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 312956 jul 24 2006 /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) chmod a+x /usr/sbin/pppd or under Ubuntu related Linuxes chmod a+x /usr/sbin/pppd Checking settings of: /etc/ppp/options lock 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 For guidance on FAX usage, get from http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ get faxing.tar.gz It has samples for a modem using port /dev/ttySL0, which must be changed to match your modem's port. 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: /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="modems/mwave*", NAME="%k", GROUP="uucp", MODE="0660" Within /etc/modprobe.conf files: Within any ancient /etc/devfs files: Within ancient kernel 2.4.n /etc/module.conf files: --------- end modem support lines --------