[ltp] R40e modem & kernel 2.6

[René Castberg]

Mine is a different model
/sbin/lspci|grep Modem
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)

Although the alsa driver should work...

Rene

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 10:57, Chris Street wrote:
> Thanks for that - will give it another go later.
> 
> I too had to symlink /dev/modem to /dev/ttySL0 for kppp - forgot to say t=
hat.
> 
> Don't know much (anything!) about ALSA, so guess I will have to start rea=
ding 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=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
> 
> -- 
> Chris Street
> chris@showerail.com