Re: Connecting serial based modem to Ubuntu via a PCI express multiport Serial board

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Sirish,

As your modem is serial based, it should work straight out with the
native drivers.  Try the following which is suggested by
ModemData.txt:


For candidate card in slot 08:00.0, firmware information and bootup
diagnostics are:
 PCI slot	PCI ID		SubsystemID	Name
 ----------	---------	---------	--------------
 08:00.0	1393:1045	1393:1045	Serial controller: Moxa Technologies Co
Ltd CP-104EL-A

 Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
 --- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 08:00.0 ----

=== Finished firmware and bootup diagnostics, next deducing cogent software. ===

A candidate modem is not transparent among the PCI devices:
------------------------------------------------
08:00.0 Serial controller: Moxa Technologies Co Ltd CP-104EL-A (4-port
RS-232 PCI Express Serial Board)
------------------------------------------------
 with USB, bridge, and RAM devices not displayed.
If a High Definition Audio card is present, if might be hosted on the Subsystem.

If your modem is an
   external USB type,
   connected by an external serial cable,
   or mounted internally on an ISA card,
then scanModem would not access it.



Try with Root permission
--->  $ sudo wvdialconf  /etc/wvdial.conf
 to detect these modem types and some USB modems.
 If the detection is successful, read the DOCs/wvdial.txt .
 Edit the /etc/wvdial.conf with Root permission:
 	sudo  gedit  /etc/wvdial.conf
  will be able to dial out with Root permission:
	sudo wvdial

Please do where the ----> is at,
--->  $ sudo wvdialconf  /etc/wvdial.conf
and you should be able to access the modem through a /dev/ttyS* where
* can be an integer 0 or greater which is the true modem port.  Let us
know if the above command was successful, otherwise wvdial may need to
be installed or you may try out the graphical utilities kppp,
NetworkManager, etc.

Best Regards,


Antonio

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Sirish Masur Mohan
<Sirish.MasurMohan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed a Moxa PCI express Multiport Serial Board on Ubuntu 12.04 with 3.2.0-33-generic kernel. I am finding it hard to find the appropriate drivers for the same, as Moxa seems to support drivers only up to 2.6 kernel version
>
> After connecting a DLink serial based modem to this port, when I run the scanModem, I see that it can recognize the Serial board, but not the modem connected to it (via Serial cable).
>
> Would appreciate any inputs on how I could use this setup, especially without the drivers! I tried using my application to open certain ports such as /dev/ttyM0 but it fails with 'No such device or address' error.
>
> Thanks!
>


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