Hi, I managed to make my AC97 modem work under my Compaq Presario R3465EA on a Suse 9.3 x86_64 distro. Some problems are still present, but now I can dial with minicom, connect the net with kinternet or kppp and send faxes with efax. The steps to do are easy.
Firstly I've installed the precompiled smart-link-modem package from suse mirrors. It is a 586 package, but it works under the x86_64 kernel. Then I've loaded the module for the alsa modem # modprobe snd_intel8x0m With the command # slmodemd -a --country=YOUR_COUNTRY the device ttySL0 for the modem will be created. It is a link to a device /dev/pts/XXX. Where XXX is a number. I've also created the link # ln -sf /dev/modem /dev/ttySL0 Alternatively the initialization of the modem drivers can be done by properly editing the /etc/init.d/slmodemd file and launching the daemon. To use the modem as user I let the user join the group of the /dev/pts/XXX devices. Then I unmuted the modem alsa device running (my modem corresponds to the 1 device in the output of aplay -l) # alsamixer -c 1 pressing "M" to unmute the control and exit alsamixer. This is equivalent to the command # amixer -D MODEM_DEVICE sset Off-hook unmute In my case MODEM_DEVICE is hw:1 Now you can run your preferred dial-up program. There are some minor problems: I can't hear any sound from the modem (this is a known bug of snd_intel8x0m, there is a patch http://cert-it.dico.unimi.it/~lorenzo/asus-s1n.html but I didn't try it yet). wvdial has a problem with IRDA devices and I couldn't try it (this is also a known problem of wvdial). And a big issue: I have to launch the dial program in a few second after I've unmuted the modem to avoid BUSY response. In fact, the Off-hook control is unmuted and I loose the line if I don't dial any number in about 10 seconds. I've created some scripts to launch efax or kinternet just after unmute the modem, but an automatic off-hook control by the drivers should be preferable. I know x86 works in this way. I hope this could help, and if somebody could help me to fix the remaining problems, they would be the welcome. Fabio -- E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB-SITE: http://www.bulgakov.altervista.org _______________________________________________ Linuxr3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.kdewebdev.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000
