[ltp] R40e modem & kernel 2.6

[Chris Street]

Thanks for that - will give it another go later.

I too had to symlink /dev/modem to /dev/ttySL0 for kppp - forgot to say tha=
t.

Don't know much (anything!) about ALSA, so guess I will have to start readi=
ng up.

Will post my results...

BTW, what does lspci say about your modem?
	00:03.0 Modem: ALi Corporation Intel 537 [M5457 AC-Link Modem]
Is it the same model?

Chris


On Tuesday 11 May 2004 10:31, Rene Castberg (UNNI) wrote:
> 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=3DUK --alsa hw:0' ?
> >
> > Perhaps we don't have the same modem.
> >
> > Still not giving up...
> > Chris
> >
> > On Monday 10 May 2004 13:36, Ren=E9 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=3D3" 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

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Chris Street
chris@showerail.com