Modem help

[Sean Bruno]

On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 18:29 -0500, max wrote:
> Sean Bruno wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 17:40 -0500, max wrote:
> >> Sean Bruno wrote:
> >>>>         
> >>>>         
> >>>>         > --
> >>>>         Can you post the output of lspci -vv for your modem please?
> >>>>         
> >>>>         Sean
> >>>>         
> >>>>         -
> >>>>
> >>>> Here you go and  thanks for the help.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 01:09.0 Communication controller: Conexant HCF 56k Data/Fax Modem (rev
> >>>> 08)
> >>>>     Subsystem: Aztech System Ltd Dell Mercury - MDP3880-U(B) Data Fax
> >>>> Modem
> >>>>     Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> >>>> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
> >>>>     Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> >>>> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
> >>>>     Latency: 32
> >>>>     Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
> >>>>     Region 0: Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> >>>>     Region 1: I/O ports at 9000 [size=8]
> >>>>     Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> >>>>         Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0
> >>>> +,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-)
> >>>>         Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>> Max
> >>> Isn't this one of those s/w modems?  I think you will need to buy the
> >>> "conextant" drivers or use the NDIS wrapper with the windows driver.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.linuxant.com
> >> I didn't think it was but you maybe right. I read that a great many 
> >> conextant modems were compatible which is why I went with that modem. I 
> >> will have to double check to make sure this one is hardware modem, can 
> >> you tell by looking at the board?what would i look for? Would 
> >> ndiswrapper give me all the functionality i need here? I have a somewhat 
> >> large collection of internal modems at my disposal. Does anyone know of 
> >> an internal modem that is compatible with linux? It doesn't have to be 
> >> red hat based linux , though that is my preference. I appreciate the help.
> >>
> >> Max
> >>
> > I think that the easiest way to tell is to visually inspect the board.
> > The ones that have a large amount of components, in my experience, are
> > h/w modems.
> > 
> > Also, if you put the modem into your box and you can see a TTY appear in
> > the boot dmesg(dmesg|grep -i tty), then linux has recognized and
> > assigned it to a serial interface and you should be good to go.
> > 
> > Sean
> > 
> > 
> My modem is recognized. It is a different card than before.
> 
>   $dmesg | grep -i tty
> console [tty0] enabled
> serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> 00:05: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> 
> then :
>   $wvdialconf  /etc/wvdial.conf
> Editing `/etc/wvdial.conf'.
> 
> Scanning your serial ports for a modem.
> 
> ttyS0<Info>: Device or resource busy
> Modem Port Scan<*1>: S0
> ttyS1<Info>: Device or resource busy
> Modem Port Scan<*1>: S1
> ttyS2<Info>: Device or resource busy
> Modem Port Scan<*1>: S2
> ttyS3<Info>: Device or resource busy
> Modem Port Scan<*1>: S3
> 
> 
> Sorry, no modem was detected!  Is it in use by another program?
> Did you configure it properly with setserial?
> 
> 
> This is where i got stuck before. I am not using setserial properly. I 
> can execute the command but i am assigning the wrong values i think but 
> my syntax is ok or I would get an error from bash. One thing,at least, 
> is clear, i do not understand the setserial command or what to set the 
> values to.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Max
> 

I see two serial ports, does your machine have two physical serial
ports.  Are they conflicting with your modem perchance?

Sean