[ltp] R40e modem & kernel 2.6

[Rene Castberg (UNNI)]

Hmmm, 
The method you used was exactly the same, it might be worth mentioning,
although it doesn't seem to be the case with you, that i had a huge
problem trying to get kppp to find the modem, it wouldn't work until i
had a made a symbolic link. Additionally i need to set the user in the
uucp group.

One thing i just noticed, you might need to change the hw:0 to hw:1, in
my case hw:0 is the soundcard, and hw:1 is the modem. 
Not sure how to check but when i do a alsamixer -c 1 i get an error
about mixer levels, any higher number i get a card not pressent.

hope this helps.

Rene


On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 08:15, Chris Street wrote: 
> Thanks for replying Rene.
> 
> Tried your suggestion with kernel 2.6.6 and slmodem 2.97.
> 
> The modem hw:0 gets created, and ATI commands work, but it doesn't seem to want to talk to the hardware - cannot physically go 'off hook' or dial, though kppp goes through the motions up to the dialling string, then just sits there.
> 
> Are you doing anything other than 'modprobe snd-intel8x0m' followed by 'slmodemd --country=UK --alsa hw:0' ?
> 
> Perhaps we don't have the same modem.
> 
> Still not giving up...
> Chris
> 
> On Monday 10 May 2004 13:36, René Castberg wrote:
> > I don't have the same laptop but i managed to get my modem (also
> > agere, but on t40p) working using the alsa driver in 2.6.5 (think its
> > also in available in 2.6.4) along with the slmodem binary in
> > slmodem.(see the readme)
> >
> >
> > Rene
> >
> > Quoting Chris Street <chris@showerail.com>:
> > > Hi
> > > Anybody had any luck with the R40e Agere modem on kernel 2.6 ?
> > >
> > > Had it working well with 2.4 kernel (using slmodem-2.9.2), but
> > > although slmodem (all versions, up to 2.9.7) compiles, installs and
> > > correctly identifies the modem on kernel 2.6, I get the output
> > > below when loading the slamr module, followed by slmodemd not being
> > > able to open the modem device.
> > >
> > > Using Mandrake 10 with custom kernel 2.6.3
> > >
> > > From log:
> > > slamr: module license 'Smart Link Ltd.' taints kernel.
> > > slamr: SmartLink AMRMO modem.
> > > slamr: probe 10b9:5457 SL1800 card...
> > > slamr: mc97 codec is 0
> > > slamr: cannot init card.
> > >
> > > "modprobe slamr debug=3" gives a longer output if anybody out there
> > > can understand it....
> > >
> > > Have also tried the R40 agere driver pointed to from the IBM site -
> > > won't even compile.
> > >
> > > Anybody got any ideas - determined to get it to work!
> > >
> > > Chris
>