Re: intel 537 with kernel 3.1.x

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Thanks Philippe, I will turn something out soon.

As for my IRQ woes, they continue, I only had one other PCI slot on my motherboard and I switched the modem to it now it complains with the exact error below just on IRQ 20 instead of 19.

Patrick


On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 08:22:38PM +0100, Philippe Vouters wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> Thank so much for your long reply.
> 
> First of all about my write up. I do first suggest to use efax to
> troubleshoot for the driver's installation correctness. It does help
> much highlighting most of the problems before wvdial or kppp times
> attemtps to connect to Internet. And the very advantage of the efax
> command I provide is that it is at no financial cost but an analog
> phone line subscription. The efax command just engage your phone
> line without making a real call. So, except the analog phone
> subscription line, the efax test is at strictly NO additional cost
> for the end-user and provides lots of very informative data,
> enabling to best troubleshoot in case of problems.
> 
> As for /dev/ttyS*, I never felt the necessity, the modem code
> creating a soft link between /dev/modem and the /dev/[537 | 536ep]
> real device. /dev/modem is sufficient for both wvdial and kppp. With
> an example on how to set up /etc/wvdial.conf on my Web site, you are
> the first one to mention wvdialconf among all the driver end-users
> since I inhierd this code back in Fedora Core 4. In fact, with all
> my experience with the end-users of my work, it appears that the
> most delicate thing is to correctly specify the suitable AT modem
> commands.
> 
> Regarding the other technical items of your skills, could I suggest
> you if possible for you to open up a public Web site on your
> computer or ask for Web space to your Internet provider in order to
> share with others all your acquired knowledge. You would be
> surprised like I am always delighted to notice it with my Web site
> that the specific work you do for someone in peticular may also
> interest a vast population over the planet. This is also true with
> any knowledge whichever its nature and topic. Your efforts would
> then be very rewarded the very same as mines.
> 
> Back to your IRQ problem ! Did my suggestions regarding either a
> possible jumper enabling IRQ selection on your modem board or
> pluging in the modem into another PCI slot help you ?
> 
> Yours truly,
> 
> 
> Le 04/01/2012 19:25, Patrick Boyadjian a écrit :
> >Hi Philippe,
> >
> >First off, well done on this write up.  An area that you may like to improve on, as you have suggested to use wvdial as a test app after installation, would be the importance of wvdial needing to see the modem device on a /dev/ttyS* link for use by the wvdialconf tool.  As it stands, you have recommended to symbolically link /dev/modem to /dev/537ep which is good, however, for the sake of less tech savvy users that would simply like to run wvdialconf a symbolic link to /dev/ttyS15 (15 being the experimental one) would allow wvdialconf to run successfully - advantages would be init string validation and correctness as well as the creation of /etc/wvdial.conf for post editing of the ISP username and password of course.
> >
> >As far as other technical subjects, you may guffaw at what I have been able to accomplish with my experience with Linux back when I first explored it back in late 1990's.  That being said here are my main uses:
> >
> >- openvpn with bridging to allow me to vpn in to my linux machine and obtain an IP on my subnet to see other devices on my network
> >- squid to filter traffic from my kids PC on a whitelist to the internet
> >- httpd to host my archive of pics, tunes and movies for access by anyone in my subnet
> >- chntpw app to constantly help my friends who have forgotten their windows NT admin account passwords
> >- simple ffmpeg conversions such as:
> >	ffmpeg -i input.wav output.mp3
> >	ffmpeg -i input.avi -b 64k -s 320x240 -r 24 output.mp4
> >- sendmail.mc and access config for the mail command for my scripts below
> >- mbr backup and restore scripts (dd if=blah blah)
> >- samba for giving my archives access to any UNC connection on my subnet
> >- tcpdump commands to sniff my network
> >- I have a network attached IP camera that ftps motion detected images to my linux machine on vsftpd
> >- iptables of course to firewall the entire operation
> >
> >scripts I use:
> >
> >- a tclsh script that logs all incoming calls to a text file (i.e. date, number, name)
> >- current ip script that checks my external ip every 30 mins and if it changes to email me the new one
> >- script to email me the previous days proxy violations from squid
> >- script to email me the previous days tty login attempts
> >- script to email me the previous days call log
> >- lmsensors script to read the internal temperature of my PC including fan speeds and basement temperature via snmpget...typical output is:
> >
> >[pboyadjian@pb3000 scripts]$ temp
> >
> >Basement Temperature = 17 C
> >
> >PC Internal Temperature = 34 C
> >PC Chip Fan =  672 RPM
> >PC Case Fan = 1132 RPM
> >
> >[pboyadjian@pb3000 scripts]$
> >
> >
> >
> >If you would like my technical documentation on any of the above I would be more than happy to offer it.
> >
> >
> >Regards,
> >Patrick
> >
> >
> >On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:23:19PM +0100, Philippe Vouters wrote:
> >>Patrick,
> >>
> >>>>If there is anything I can ever do to repay you please let me know!
> >>
> >>Yes, indeed, you can repay us by attentively redeading my
> >>litterature on the Intel modems subject at
> >>http://vouters.dyndns.org/Intel/Intel-Readme.html and give us your
> >>feedback upon it.
> >>
> >>What we do expect are your detailled impressions about this document
> >>clarity and informations completeness.
> >>
> >>Post-scriptum : if you are looking for informations on either Linux,
> >>Unix, OpenVMS or Windows, you may refer to another side of my Web
> >>site at http://vouters.dyndns.org/tima/
> >>If, even better, you mail me with technical subjects I can study and
> >>document, you'll make the worldwide IT community happy.
> >>
> >>Yours truly,
> >>Philippe
> >>
> >>Le 04/01/2012 14:46, Patrick Boyadjian a écrit :
> >>>Brilliant, it works!
> >>>
> >>>Philippe and Antonio, thank you so much for your support in this regard!
> >>>
> >>>If there is anything I can ever do to repay you please let me know!
> >>>
> >>>Regards,
> >>>Patrick
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 12:27:39PM +0100, Philippe Vouters wrote:
> >>>>My work ought to support your modem.
> >>>>[philippe@victor ~]$ grep e159:0001 intel-536-537/*
> >>>>intel-536-537/makefile_537:     vendor_device_ids[0]="e159:0001";\
> >>>>
> >>>>The alternative to modifying the bash files is to download
> >>>>http://vouters.dyndns.org/Intel/intel-536EP-537EP_2012_01_04.tar.bz2
> >>>>
> >>>>Please reply whether you are fully satisfied or not.
> >>>>
> >>>>Regards,
> >>>>Philippe
> >>>>
> >>>>Le 04/01/2012 04:03, Patrick Boyadjian a écrit :
> >>>>>Thanks for the swift reply Antonio.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Well originally I had a conexant chipset for a HCF modem that the linuxant group had drivers for, however those drivers ONLY worked on pre 3.x kernels so they broke when I upgraded.  Dev team from Linuxant has informed me they are aware of the API break in the driver for the newer kernel and say they should fix it sometime soon.  Meanwhile I dug up the Intel modem you see below to try and get it to work.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>So short answer I never should have upgraded!! :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Regards,
> >>>>>Patrick
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 07:47:12PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> >>>>>>Patrick,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>I am unsure if that modem in particular is served by Phillipe's
> >>>>>>driver.  IT does not seem to be a true INTEL 537 modem :(
> >>>>>>However, there was a recent update to the driver since it was failing
> >>>>>>to build up in Ubuntu and it was working fine in Fedora 15.  Did you
> >>>>>>make sure that you got the latest driver available from Phillipe's
> >>>>>>website?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Oops sorry, you did get the latest one. Maybe Phillipe can comment
> >>>>>>here to make sure that maybe something went wrong, or that it may be
> >>>>>>specific to 537 modem, since the driver also works with 536 Intel
> >>>>>>based modems.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Regards,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Antonio
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>BTW,
> >>>>>>since you have experience with linux since the Red Hat days, did you
> >>>>>>get to use this particular modem before?  If you did and the drivers
> >>>>>>worked, I see no reason why the modem should not work with the newer
> >>>>>>kernels.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Patrick Boyadjian
> >>>>>><patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>    wrote:
> >>>>>>>Hi,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>This is my first attempt to contact this group so apologize in advance if I=  don't provide sufficient information.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>I'm not exactly a newbie to linux and Fedora since I've used it back when i= t was called red hat...I've upgraded to Fedora 16 recently and boy how thin= gs have changed!  Anyways, here is where I'm at:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>lspci shows my modem as:
> >>>>>>>01:01.0 Communication controller: Tiger Jet Network Inc. Tiger3XX Modem/ISD= N interface
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>scanModem details as:
> >>>>>>>For candidate card in slot 01:01.0, firmware information and bootup diagnos= tics are:
> >>>>>>>PCI slot       PCI ID          SubsystemID     Name
> >>>>>>>----------     ---------       ---------       --------------
> >>>>>>>01:01.0        e159:0001       8086:0003       Communication controller: Ti=
> >>>>>>>ger Jet Network Inc. Tiger3XX Modem/ISDN interface
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
> >>>>>>>--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 01:01.0 ----
> >>>>>>>[    0.109098] pci 0000:01:01.0: [e159:0001] type 0 class 0x000780
> >>>>>>>[    0.109120] pci 0000:01:01.0: reg 10: [io  0xa000-0xa0ff]
> >>>>>>>[    0.109133] pci 0000:01:01.0: reg 14: [mem 0xf1004000-0xf1004fff]
> >>>>>>>[    0.109200] pci 0000:01:01.0: supports D2
> >>>>>>>[    0.109203] pci 0000:01:01.0: PME# supported from D0 D2 D3hot D3cold
> >>>>>>>[    0.109209] pci 0000:01:01.0: PME# disabled
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>The PCI slot 01:01.0 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.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Predictive  diagnostics for card in bus 01:01.0:
> >>>>>>>        Modem chipset  detected on
> >>>>>>>NAME=3D"Communication controller: Tiger Jet Network Inc. Tiger3XX Modem/ISD= N interface"
> >>>>>>>CLASS=3D0780
> >>>>>>>PCIDEV=3De159:0001
> >>>>>>>SUBSYS=3D8086:0003
> >>>>>>>IRQ=3D11
> >>>>>>>HDA2=3D00:1b.0
> >>>>>>>IDENT=3DINTEL537
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>For candidate modem in:  01:01.0
> >>>>>>>   0780 Communication controller: Tiger Jet Network Inc. Tiger3XX Modem/ISD= N interface
> >>>>>>>      Primary device ID:  e159:0001
> >>>>>>>Support type needed or chipset:        INTEL537
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>So I visited http://vouters.dyndns.org/Intel/ and heeded Philippe's note to=
> >>>>>>>:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>If you execute a 3.x.y kernel, download:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>../Intel/intel-536EP-537EP_2011_12_11.tar.bz2<http://vouters.dyndns.org/Int=
> >>>>>>>el/intel-536EP-537EP_2011_12_11.tar.bz2>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>...and continued to untar and try to build.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Issuing make clean and make 537 seem to work with a warning:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>[root@pb3000 intel-536-537]# make clean
> >>>>>>>cd coredrv; make clean
> >>>>>>>make[1]: Entering directory `/root/intel-536-537/coredrv'
> >>>>>>>rm -f *.ko .*.o.cmd *.mod.c .*.ko.cmd *.o *~ core Module.* modules.* rm -rf .tmp_versions
> >>>>>>>make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/intel-536-537/coredrv'
> >>>>>>>rm -f *.o *.ko
> >>>>>>>[root@pb3000 intel-536-537]# make 537
> >>>>>>>cd coredrv; make clean
> >>>>>>>make[1]: Entering directory `/root/intel-536-537/coredrv'
> >>>>>>>rm -f *.ko .*.o.cmd *.mod.c .*.ko.cmd *.o *~ core Module.* modules.* rm -rf .tmp_versions
> >>>>>>>make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/intel-536-537/coredrv'
> >>>>>>>rm -f *.o *.ko
> >>>>>>>   Module precompile check
> >>>>>>>   Current running kernel is: 3.1.6-1.fc16.i686
> >>>>>>>   /lib/modules...   autoconf.h exists
> >>>>>>>diff: /boot/vmlinuz.autoconf.h: No such file or directory
> >>>>>>>   autoconf.h matches running kernel
> >>>>>>>diff: /boot/vmlinuz.version.h: No such file or directory
> >>>>>>>   version.h matches running kernel
> >>>>>>>make[1]: Entering directory `/root/intel-536-537'
> >>>>>>>Building for 537
> >>>>>>>3.1.6-1.fc16.i686
> >>>>>>>make[2]: Entering directory `/root/intel-536-537/coredrv'
> >>>>>>>make -C /lib/modules/3.1.6-1.fc16.i686/build M=3D/root/intel-536-537/coredr= v modules
> >>>>>>>make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.1.6-1.fc16.i686'
> >>>>>>>  CC [M]  /root/intel-536-537/coredrv/coredrv.o
> >>>>>>>  CC [M]  /root/intel-536-537/coredrv/clmmain.o
> >>>>>>>  CC [M]  /root/intel-536-537/coredrv/rts.o
> >>>>>>>  CC [M]  /root/intel-536-537/coredrv/task.o
> >>>>>>>  CC [M]  /root/intel-536-537/coredrv/uart.o
> >>>>>>>  CC [M]  /root/intel-536-537/coredrv/wwh_dflt.o
> >>>>>>>  CC [M]  /root/intel-536-537/coredrv/locks.o
> >>>>>>>  CC [M]  /root/intel-536-537/coredrv/softserial_io.o
> >>>>>>>  CC [M]  /root/intel-536-537/coredrv/softserial_ioctl.o
> >>>>>>>  CC [M]  /root/intel-536-537/coredrv/softserial.o
> >>>>>>>  CC [M]  /root/intel-536-537/coredrv/afedsp_int.o
> >>>>>>>  LD [M]  /root/intel-536-537/coredrv/Intel537.o
> >>>>>>>  Building modules, stage 2.
> >>>>>>>  MODPOST 1 modules
> >>>>>>>WARNING: could not find /root/intel-536-537/coredrv/.537core.lib.cmd for /r= oot/intel-536-537/coredrv/537core.lib
> >>>>>>>  CC      /root/intel-536-537/coredrv/Intel537.mod.o
> >>>>>>>  LD [M]  /root/intel-536-537/coredrv/Intel537.ko
> >>>>>>>make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.1.6-1.fc16.i686'
> >>>>>>>make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/intel-536-537/coredrv'
> >>>>>>>make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/intel-536-537'
> >>>>>>>[root@pb3000 intel-536-537]#
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>However, make install fails complaining about kernel version:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>[root@pb3000 intel-536-537]# make install
> >>>>>>>make[1]: Entering directory `/root/intel-536-537'
> >>>>>>>rm -f /usr/sbin/hamregistry.bin
> >>>>>>>bash 537_inst
> >>>>>>>running kernel 3.1.6-1.fc16.i686
> >>>>>>>unsupported kernel version: only 2.4.x and 2.6.x are supported
> >>>>>>>make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
> >>>>>>>make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/intel-536-537'
> >>>>>>>[root@pb3000 intel-536-537]#
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Am I missing something?  Any help here is super appreciated.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Patrick
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>--
> >>>>Philippe Vouters (Fontainebleau/France)
> >>>>URL: http://vouters.dyndns.org/
> >>>
> >>
> >>--
> >>Philippe Vouters (Fontainebleau/France)
> >>URL: http://vouters.dyndns.org/
> >
> 
> -- 
> Philippe Vouters (Fontainebleau/France)
> URL: http://vouters.dyndns.org/


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