The outstanding question at this moment is which modem is connected to the phone line connector. If the Agere card is not, then that explains all the failures in attempts to use martian. The easiest thing to next do is to get the modem driver information under a Microsoft boot. If the PC can be physically opened, check whether the Agere card is connected to the phone line connector MarvS On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Jacques Goldberg <Jacques.Goldberg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > John, > > > Marv knows much more than I do so he is to be trusted. > > I would immediately apologise for my mistake of believing that there is no > via82 modem function in your machine if you had not reported that issue with > the connector. > > A modem chip in your computer can either be mounted on a PCI card with the > phone connector on the card as you describe to be the case for your Agere > modem. Or it can be part of a multifunction chip, in your case so called > AC'97 modem. In that case the rest of the chip serves the sound (and very > often games) at the same time. The multifunction chip can be mounted on a > PCI card but then you should have found a second modem connector on the card > (if it exists) with the small jacks for sound connection. Or the > multifunction chip can be mounted on the main board of the computer but then > you should see another Âphone connector somewhere on the box (face, back, > frame). > > > How old is this computer??? > > > In any case Marv's recommendation was excellent since you have observed that > martian_dev is loaded when the software for a via82xxx modem is not loaded, > and also the actual driver program martian_modem is running. > > > Among possibilities, something may be set wrongly by the automatic start > script(s). > > What I would try, but it is likely wiser to wait for further advice from > Marv, would thus be: > > -to stop martian_modem  with the command  Âsudo kill -9  891 > replacing 891 but whatever comes at the same place from command > > ps ax | grep martian > Â891 ?    ÂSsl  Â0:00 /usr/sbin/martian_modem --syslog --daemon > > -to unload martian_dev Âwith command  Âsudo rmmod martian_dev > > -to check again with sudo ps ax | grep martian Âthat nothing decided to > restart martian_modem > > -to check with sudo lsmod that martian_dev has indeed been unloaded > > > -to fresh load again  martian_dev  with  sudo modprobe martian_dev > > -to fresh start martian_modem Âwith  Âsudo Â/usr/sbin/martian_modem > --syslog --daemon > > -to verify ls -l /dev/ttySM*  that the port /dev/ttySM0 has been created > > -to try again to run wvdial > > > By the way why is there a Stypid Mode = 1 in your /etc/wvdial.conf ? This > was relevant some 10 years ago for a few Internet Service Providers only, > and may fool the login procedure, albeit not before the remote modem will > have answered which is not yet your case. > > > Last issue for this round, may be related to the age of your computer. Do > you have a double boot wit Windows? Do you know how to inspect your BIOS at > boot time (no need to have Windows for that)? If you do, please navigate, > not changing anything yet, to see if there is an option about "operating > system" being Windows or Other, or an option about PnP being enabled or not? > > > Jacques > > > > On 02/23/2011 06:27 AM, John Smithson wrote: > >> Dear Jacques and Marvin >> >> Thank you for your emails. >> >> I checked lsmod first and I could see that snd-via82xx-modem was in. >> Also Martian_dev was not in. >> I then blacklisted: >> >> snd-via82xx-modem and >> snd-atiixp-modem >> >> as instructed by MarvS, retested and got the same result i.e. invalid >> dial command and disconnected. >> >> As you can see below Martian_dev came in after the blacklisting. >> >> I can only see one physical modem (Agere in PCI slot) in the PC. The >> board does not appear to have a telephone connector at all. >> >> The modem works fine if I start the PC into Windows. >> >> No Jacques I did not edit the dmesg text file - just as created by >> ScanModem! >> >> Regards, John >> >> Here follows the results of what Jacques asked me to do: >> >> jonathan@jonathan-desktop:~$ lsmod >> Module         ÂSize ÂUsed by >> nls_utf8        Â1069 Â1 >> nls_iso8859_1      3249 Â1 >> nls_cp437        4919 Â1 >> isofs         Â29250 Â1 >> vfat          Â8933 Â1 >> fat          Â47767 Â1 vfat >> binfmt_misc       6587 Â1 >> fbcon         Â35102 Â71 >> tileblit        Â2031 Â1 fbcon >> font          Â7557 Â1 fbcon >> bitblit         4707 Â1 fbcon >> softcursor       Â1189 Â1 bitblit >> vga16fb        Â11385 Â0 >> vgastate        Â8961 Â1 vga16fb >> snd_via82xx      Â20058 Â2 >> gameport        Â9089 Â1 snd_via82xx >> snd_ac97_codec    Â100646 Â1 snd_via82xx >> ac97_bus        Â1002 Â1 snd_ac97_codec >> snd_pcm_oss      Â35308 Â0 >> snd_mixer_oss     Â13746 Â1 snd_pcm_oss >> snd_pcm        Â70694 Â3 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss >> snd_page_alloc     Â7076 Â2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm >> snd_mpu401_uart     5617 Â1 snd_via82xx >> snd_seq_dummy      1338 Â0 >> snd_seq_oss      Â26722 Â0 >> snd_seq_midi      Â4557 Â0 >> snd_rawmidi      Â19056 Â2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi >> snd_seq_midi_event   Â6003 Â2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi >> snd_seq        Â47263 Â6 >> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event >> radeon        Â676897 Â3 >> snd_timer       Â19098 Â2 snd_pcm,snd_seq >> snd_seq_device     Â5700 Â5 >> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq >> ttm          Â49943 Â1 radeon >> drm_kms_helper     29329 Â1 radeon >> ppdev          5259 Â0 >> snd          Â54180 Â15 >> >> snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device >> drm          162409 Â5 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper >> i2c_algo_bit      Â5028 Â1 radeon >> amd64_agp        7165 Â1 >> k8temp         Â3152 Â0 >> parport_pc       25962 Â1 >> soundcore        6620 Â1 snd >> i2c_viapro       Â5573 Â0 >> martian_dev      Â20103 Â0 >> agpgart        Â31724 Â3 ttm,drm,amd64_agp >> shpchp         28835 Â0 >> lp           Â7028 Â0 >> parport        Â32635 Â3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp >> usbhid         36110 Â0 >> hid          Â67064 Â1 usbhid >> usb_storage      Â39553 Â1 >> floppy         53016 Â0 >> pata_via        Â7272 Â3 >> sata_via        Â7009 Â0 >> skge          36428 Â0 >> ===================================== >> jonathan@jonathan-desktop:~$ ps ax | grep martian >>  891 ?    ÂSsl  Â0:00 /usr/sbin/martian_modem --syslog --daemon >> --user=nobody --group=dialout --debug=1 >> Â1445 pts/0  ÂS+   0:00 grep --color=auto martian >> ===================================== >> jonathan@jonathan-desktop:~$ sudo wvdial >> [sudo] password for jonathan: >> --> ÂWvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60 >> --> ÂCannot get information for serial port. >> --> ÂInitializing modem. >> --> ÂSending: ATZ >> ATZ >> OK >> --> ÂSending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0&C1&D2 +FCLASS=0 >> ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0&C1&D2 +FCLASS=0 >> OK >> --> ÂModem initialized. >> --> ÂSending: ATDT0198331111 >> --> ÂWaiting for carrier. >> ATDT0198331111 >> --> ÂTimed out while dialing. ÂTrying again. >> --> ÂSending: ATDT0198331111 >> --> ÂWaiting for carrier. >> --> ÂTimed out while dialing. ÂTrying again. >> --> ÂSending: ATDT0198331111 >> --> ÂWaiting for carrier. >> NO CARRIER >> --> ÂNo Carrier! ÂTrying again. >> --> ÂSending: ATDT0198331111 >> --> ÂWaiting for carrier. >> ATDT0198331111 >> ATDT0198331111 >> ERROR >> --> ÂInvalid dial command. >> --> ÂDisconnecting at Wed Feb 23 14:14:11 2011 >> ================================================= >> >> I did the sudo updatedb first on the previous startup of the PC. >> >> jonathan@jonathan-desktop:~$ sudo locate martian >> /etc/default/martian-modem >> /etc/init.d/martian-modem >> /etc/rc0.d/K20martian-modem >> /etc/rc1.d/K20martian-modem >> /etc/rc2.d/S20martian-modem >> /etc/rc3.d/S20martian-modem >> /etc/rc4.d/S20martian-modem >> /etc/rc5.d/S20martian-modem >> /etc/rc6.d/K20martian-modem >> /home/jonathan/martian-full-20100123 >> /home/jonathan/.local/share/Trash/files/martian-full-20100123 >> /home/jonathan/.local/share/Trash/info/martian-full-20100123.trashinfo >> /home/jonathan/Downloads/martian-full-20100123.tar.gz >> /home/jonathan/martian-full-20100123/ChangeLog >> /home/jonathan/martian-full-20100123/Cleaning.txt >> 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