[ltp] modem driver from Smartlink

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 1 Mar 2003 00:33:18 +0100


On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:41:46 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:27:28 +0100, Jan Frey wrote:
> > On Monday 17 February 2003 11:21, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > 
> > > > > I managed to hook up the modem to an analog telephone line this
> > > > > weekend, tried to dial a number and only got this:
> > > > >
> > > > > Feb 15 14:14:28 localhost chat[18170]: ATDT0192071^M^M
> > > > > Feb 15 14:14:28 localhost chat[18170]: NO DIALTONE
> > > > >
> > > > > Looks like bad luck for me. :-(
> > > >
> > > > I had the same problem... for me it was due to a wrong
> > > > country setting....
> > 
> > >
> > > I have this line in my modules.conf:
> > >
> > > options slmdm country=GERMANY
> > >
> > > Output from minicom:
> > >
> > > ATI7
> > > Country: GERMANY
> > > Serial Number: 98638029
> > > Protocol Factor: 6ca8fd0
> > 
> > Well, then.... 
> > Are you sure, that your telephone line gets a standard 
> > dialtone (no in-house telephone system or something like that)?
> > Did you hear the dialtone?
> 
> I just plugged the RJ11 connector of my girlfriends phone into the RJ11
> interface of the ThinkPad. However, the phone is connected to some kind
> of telephone system (to use analog devices on an ISDN line).
> 
> When I tried to dial in, I used alsamixer to maximize the volume of
> every possible sound source, by I didn't hear the dialtone.
> 
> Maybe I can try it again on a "real line" this week.

Finally, I got it working. The only strange issue is a CPU load of ~50%
for approx. 30 seconds periodically every few minutes while the modem
is online.

Just for the records: I'm using slmdm-2.7.9.tar.gz and kernel 2.4.20 on
an A30 (2652-3VG). The Modem has this lspci -v output:

00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem (rev 01) (prog-if 00
[Generic])
        Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A/T/X Series
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at 2400 [size=256]
        I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]

And the same with lspci -nv:

00:1f.6 Class 0703: 8086:2486 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: 1014:0223
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at 2400 [size=256]
        I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]

Regards,
Tino