[ltp] New to Thinkpad - modem help.

[Tom Grydeland]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Derek Harding wrote:

> I have a 600E with SuSE 7.3 up and running, and a pcmcia Xircom ethernet card 
> which also runs fine.
> 
> The SuSE dist. includes mwavem but it doesn't want to run at all. I 
> downloaded the source and it compiles (with errors but they don't seem 
> significant) but that, too, fails to run the modem. I've read the docs and 
> need to be able to use a modem. When I put my old pcmcia modem in, everything 
> locks up until I remove it.
> 
> Question 1 - can anyone help re HOWTO make the onboard modem run. How do I 
> identify that it is there and what sort it is?

I have a 600E, and I use the mwave drivers with no trouble.

(I have had lockups if other devices were using the IRQ at the time, but
I consider those my own fault)

The HOWTO that comes with the distribution had all the instructions that
made it work for me.  In particular, having the script src/mwavem/mwaved
installed with the other boot scripts (as /etc/init.d/mwaved) has worked
with no trouble for me.  (The correct location varies with distro.  On
SuSE it might be /sbin/init.d instead)

when I want to dial out:

    /etc/init.d/mwaved start
    pppd

When I'm finished:

    interrupt (Ctrl-C) to stop pppd
    /etc/init.d/mwaved stop

If I need to dial again right away, I don't need to stop the modem in
the meantime.  If the machine has been suspended without unloading the
mwavem module, It must be unloaded and reloaded before it works.
(mwaved restart).

> Question 2 - can I disable the onboard modem so that the pcmcia one will be 
> recognised? How?

If you unload the kernel module, there is nothing else that can talk to
the modem.

On my machine:

    # /sbin/lsmod | grep mwave
    mwave                  29456   4
    serial                 45184   0 [mwave]

> Question 3 - I have no paperwork. I can get at a bios test by pressing F10 on 
> startup but is there any way to get at the bios settings?

Under Linux, you can use the 'lspnp' and 'setpnp' tools, distributed
with pcmcia-cs.  If you can reboot into DOS, there is a tool (which
should come with your laptop) called PS2.EXE which can also be used.

This has all been explained in some detail on this mailing list
previously, so you should be able to find what you need in the archives.

> Please, I could do with pointers where to look if these matters are already 
> documented rather than simply "RTFM".

> Thanks

I hope that helps,

> derek@lagham.uklinux.net

-- 
//Tom Grydeland <Tom.Grydeland@phys.uit.no>

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