Intel 536ep hardware modem setting

Satyrinox

anyone have any idea what settings i should use with my intel 536ep hardware modem , i cant seem to figure it out , any help is needed, and appreciated thanx

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deadg69 · n00b Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Posts: 3 Location: MA

I just recently purchased one of these modems myself. I was able to get the drivers installed and can talk to the device using minicom, but when it tries to reset the modem i get a seg fault. I got this modem because of the cheap price and voice support. My plan is to try and use this as an answering machine. When I try and run vgetty, it also fails due to a seg fault.

I haven't had much time to play with it yet, but hopefully i'll be able to figure it out.

what kind of problems are you having?

fsck! · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2003 Posts: 29

Is that a serial line modem (external and connected to a COM port on your PC)?

Satyrinox · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 10:05 am Post subject: yeah its an internal modem

i really hate this modem and wish i could take it back , but im stuck with it , but i dont use it anymore , now im trying to use an hcfpci-win(blech)modem which is having strange results ..ill keep trying , and switching between the two if need be , but if not i think ill have dsl soon and that will be the best remedy yet!
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Satyrinox · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 10:08 am Post subject:

Also i cant seem to install it right or anything its just a POS and <repeat> I hate it!!</repeat>
Grrr lol well thanx
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CatSC · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 10:55 am Post subject:

Your modem should come with drivers. You unpack them and then do
make clean
make 536ep
It will make two .o files. Then you need to write a boot script, for that read README file.

mwahl · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 35

Hi,

my modem is a creatix v9x with this 536ep chipset. I got the drivers from Intel which should only work under 2.4 kernels. As deadg69 I'm able to use minicom to communicate with the modem and I'm even able to make a ppp connection to my ISP. Unfortunately the connection works only for about a minute. With

CatSC · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 3:21 am Post subject:

This drivers do not work properly on linux-2.4.22+.
I tried many times and they still do not work. They don't give any warnings... strange

mwahl · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 35

I'm using 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 and the drivers don't work. Perhaps there is a certain kernel feature we could turn off/on to get it work.

mwahl · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 35

After digging in some mailing lists I found a solution for my problem with the 536ep modem.
I downloaded the 4.60-1 driver version from Intel (check additional downloads on the nav-bar) and it seems to work. Currently I'm using V32 but today I'll try to switch back to 56k.

An other information I got from the mailing list was that the IRQ density could be a problem for the new driver. One guy switched off his USB-Ports in the BIOS. Therefore the modem haven't had to share IRQ with something else and worked perfectly.