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manywele
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 Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 3:10 am Post subject: PCI faxmodem - Unable to initialize |
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Here's the story:
I'm housesitting for a friend who dual boots with Windows 95 and Gentoo and who only has AOL dial-up (I've been trying for months to convince him to go to DSL). I'm trying to get penggy to work but it keeps giving me
| Code: | Using /dev/ttyS0 device
Device /dev/ttyS0 opened
Dialing provider...
Sending ATZ
Unable to initialize the modem |
This is a U.S.Robotics V.92 PCI Faxmodem.
I have enabled TUN/TAP, PPP and PPP async support in the kernel (2.6.3 IIRC).
I have tried /dev/ttyS0 through /dev/ttyS7 and all give the same error.
/proc/pci says :
| Code: | Bus 0, device 13, function 0:
Communication controller: PCI device 16ec:2f00 (U.S. Robotics) (rev 1).
IRQ 11
Master Capable. Latency=64.
Non-prefetchable 32 bin memory at 0xe8000000 [0xe800ffff].
I/O at 0x1030 [0x1037] |
I've only messed with a dial-up modem once before in Linux and it just worked.
What am I missing? Is it an issue with drivers or a mistake in the penggy config? Please give me some direction to look and get me out of Win95! |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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manywele,
If this PC has real serial ports they will by ttyS0 and ttyS1, so they can't be the PCI modem.
Can you run lspci (emerge pciutils if needed) and post the modem entry please?
That will convert | Quote: | | PCI device 16ec:2f00 |
into names.
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manywele
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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lspci says
| Code: | | 00:0d.0 Communication controller: U.S. Robotics: Unknown device 2f00 (rev 01) |
That doesn't look good. I keep thinking that I should have a /dev/modem but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get one.
Yeah, can't be ttyS?. Sometimes my brain's just not screwed on tight. 
So how do I go about making this a known device? Or am I still on the completely wrong tack here? |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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manywele,
Don't worry about /dev/modem. Its actually a symbolic link to the real device file. The unknown device means its not in lspcis' database yet, so we have to do it the hard way from the numbers.
There is some crippleware for your modem here http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/index.php but the free version is limited to 14.4k. I didn't check the price of the full version.
There is an emerge for it too | Code: | | emerge net-dialup/hsflinmodem |
I recall there was an old version that used to be unrestricted but it won't work with newer kernels. I don't know which version this is.
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manywele
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for your help NeddySeagoon.
I thought it might be a driver issue but Google just wasn't leading me anywhere. (I also found one Linux site saying USRobotics modems are recommended for linux and another saying to steer clear of them.)
The free driver works but I think AOL has trouble staying connected at 14.4k. I actually got it to open a connection long enough for me to ping out once and then it booted me off. The paid version is $20 but I saw that they had a free 30-day trial. Maybe I'll try that and see if it works any better.
Edit: Whoops, it's $15 and just the crippled free trial version. Looked in the wrong place. |
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NeddySeagoon
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manywele,
With everyone upgrading to ADSL, you can probably find a real externl modem going for free or just a few <insert_local_currency_here>. The thing about real external serial modems is they just work.
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manywele
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, as I said I'm just housesitting for a friend for a few days and he's got a bit of an issue with upgrading. (I got him a used PIII 500MHz with 256MB RAM last year and he was amazed with the speed and huge 13GB hard drive. He's considering upgrading to win98. Hell, his "laptop" is a TRS-80 Model 100!)
Thought it would be nice if he could be online in Gentoo (he's been downloading packages and ebuilds in Windows and moving them over to the linux partition) but I'm not going out to look for a cheap modem for him. I just found the penggy app and since I'd thought that AOL in linux was impossible I thought I'd try it out. I might still try a couple of tweaks and see if I can get it to work. Just curious how long an emerge sync takes at 14.4.  |
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