Unable to get dial up modem working - ModemData.txt:
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-------------------------- System information ----------------------------
CPU=i686, Ubuntu , ALSA_version=1.0.18
Linux version 2.6.28-19-generic (buildd@vernadsky) (gcc version 4.3.3
(Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #64-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 18 20:55:57 UTC 2010
scanModem update of: 2010_05_29
Distrib_ID=Ubuntu
DistribCodeName=jaunty
AptRepositoryStem=http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
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:
cdc_acm snd_hda_intel
Attached USB devices are:
ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp. Video Camera Controller
ID 0458:003a KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems)
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:
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition
Audio Controller (rev 01)
High Definition Audio cards can host modem chips.
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 1002:437b Audio device: ATI Technologies
Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller
Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
16: 7477684 IO-APIC-fasteoi HDA Intel
--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 00:14.2 ----
[ 0.620685] pci 0000:00:14.2: reg 10 64bit mmio: [0xd0000000-0xd0003fff]
[ 0.620740] pci 0000:00:14.2: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
[ 0.620746] pci 0000:00:14.2: PME# disabled
[ 13.655805] 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 modem cards detected by "aplay -l" are:
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
The /proc/asound/pcm file reports:
-----------------------
00-00: ALC883 Analog : ALC883 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
00-01: ALC883 Digital : ALC883 Digital : playback 1
00-02: ALC883 Analog : ALC883 Analog : capture 1
00-06: Si3054 Modem : Si3054 Modem : playback 1 : capture 1
about /proc/asound/cards:
------------------------
0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
HDA ATI SB at 0xd0000000 irq 16
PCI slot 00:14.2 has a High Definition Audio Card
The drivers are in the kernel modules tree at:
/lib/modules/2.6.28-19-generic/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko
The modem codec file for the HDA card is: /proc/asound/card0/codec#0
--------------------------------------------------------
Codec: LSI Si3054
Address: 0
Vendor Id: 0x11c13026
Subsystem Id: 0x10250101
Revision Id: 0x100700
Modem Function Group: 0x1
The audio card hosts a softmodem chip: 0x11c13026
The softmodem chip 0x11c13026 is in principle supported by the COMM
support of slmodemd
and the joint snd-hda-intel audio+modem driver, begun with ALSA version 1.0.13.
For HDA cards with ALC883 chips, an upgrade to ALSA verions 1.0.15 way
be necessary.
Instructions for Upgrading snd-hda-intel and its dependent driver set are at:
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-eighth/msg00838.html
11c13026 modems may alternatively be supported by the software from Vendor 11c1,
LSI Inc (formerly Agere Systems) providing the driver pair agrmodem +
agrserial, provided by
the most current package agrsm-11c11040-version at
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/11c11040/
If not a Conexant modem, the driver snd-hda-intel with its dependent drivers:
snd_hda_intel 436276 3
snd_pcm 83076 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd 62756 15
snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
snd_page_alloc 16904 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
----------
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=1002:437b
IRQ=16
HDA2=00:14.2
SOFT=1002:437b.HDA
HDAchipVendorID=11c1
CHIP=0x11c13026
IDENT=slmodemd
SLMODEMD_DEVICE=hw:0,6
Driver=snd-hda-intel
package=agrsm-11c11040
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 1002:437b
Softmodem codec or chipset from diagnostics: 0x11c13026
from Archives:
The HDA card softmodem chip is 0x11c13026
Support type needed or chipset: slmodemd supporting the
snd-hda-intel audio+modem driver
An ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) modem driver: snd-hda-intel
provides Low Level support enabling contact with the modem hardware.
For all BUT Conexant chip soft modems (using hsfmodem software)
complementary High Level support is through a Smartlink utility: slmodemd
Download from http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/
the package SLMODEMD_gcc4.3_alsa1.0.18.tar.gz having a compiled
slmodemd. Unpack under Linux with:
$ tar zxf SLMODEMD_gcc4.3_alsa1.0.18.tar.gz
and read instructions therein. But briefly, the modem is setup with command:
sudo slmodemd -c YOUR_COUNTRY --alsa hw:0,6
reporting dynamic creation of ports:
/dev/ttySL0 --> /dev/pts/N , with N some number
Read DOCs/Smartlink.txt and Modem/DOCs/YourSystem.txt for follow
through guidance.
Writing DOCs/Smartlink.txt
============ end Smartlink section =====================
The AgereSystems/LSI agrsm code supports compiling of a agrmodem +
agrserial driver pair.
There are a few different chipsets which use this driver pair, but
they use different code resources:
Chipsets KV* PackageNames (most current as of November 2009)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
11c1:048c and 11c1:048f 2.6.29
agrsm048pci-2.1.60_20100108_i386.deb or
agrsm048pci-2.1.60_20100108.tar.gz
11c1:0620 2.6.31
agrsm06pci-2.1.80_20100106_i386.deb or
agrsm06pci-2.1.80~20100106.tar.gz !!
11c11040 (on HDA audio cards) 2.6.31
agrsm-11c11040_20091225_i386.deb or
agrsm-11c11040-2.1.80~20091225.tar.bz2 !!
All available at:
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/11c11040/
Additionally there are;
automation & testing agrsm-tools_0.0.1_all.deb or
agrsm-tools-0.0.1-2.noarch.rpm
General background agrsm_howto.txt
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* KV == latest kernel release with a reported success
!! Latest update with major credit to Nikolay Zhuravlev
But see conflict issue:
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-nineth/msg02753.html
For the 11c11040 chip with kernels 2.6.31 and later a change in a
modules loading settingmay be necessary.
Within the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf (or equivalent for
your Distro), change the phrase:
options snd-hda-intel power_save=10
to:
options snd-hda-intel power_save=0
or the agrsm drivers will not function. For Ubuntu related systems
this can be done with:
$ sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
Report from Bjorn Wielens:
Please note- trying to load the modules on a OpenSuSE 11.2 system gives
an error about the module_version symbol. Using:
# modprobe --force agrmodem
# modprobe --force agrserial
is necessary to load the drivers, and does not appear to cause ill effects.
All of the above packages are dkms competent. This means that if your
Linux distros dkms package
is previously installed, if provides for future updates matching
forthcoming kernels.
-------------- 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
The patch utility is needed for compiling ALSA drivers, and possibly others.
Minimal compiling resources appear complete:
make utility - /usr/bin/make
Compiler version 4.3
linuc_headers base folder /lib/modules/2.6.28-19-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
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.
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.
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Checking for modem support lines:
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/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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