Re: PCI modems (success!)
Hi Leonardo, It only took about a week to figure out that your message below did in fact tell me exactly what I needed to know in order to get my pci modem working correctly. I was thrown by the memory address that /proc/pci showed. But once I realized I needed to put that in the /dev/serial.conf file rather than ttyS* I was fine. For some stupid reason on my part I didn't put in the correct IRQ, according to /proc/pci. So I connected but very slowly. Modem HOWTO, a great document, suggested this was due to an incorrect IRQ. When I then changed serial.conf to include the IRQ that /proc/pci showed my connection speeded up significantly. Thanks to you, all the other debian list users who messaged me, and the Serial and Modem HOWTOs for helping me solve this problem. Ken - Original Message - From: Leonardo Dias [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ken Januski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 2:43 PM Subject: Re: PCI modems So now that I have this info should I start experimenting with IRQs with setserial? I'm also curious as to whether I can believe what dmsg tells me. If it finds modem at ttyS00 does that mean it's really there or could this be a default setting from some configuration file? Thanks for any pointers you can give and thanks for your incredibly speedy response. It's really easy. Do a cat /proc/pci You'll find a communication device in some IRQ. Get that IRQ number and open your /etc/serial.conf Change the IRQ in there, then run /etc/init.d/setserial start or something like that. That's all you need. :-)) -- Leonardo Dias Analista Programador / Analyst Programmer Catho Online www.catho.com.br
PCI modems
Hi Can anyone point me in the right direction to help in configuring a USRobotics internal modem? Unless I missed something the Hardware Compatibility list didn't mention PCI though the MODEM HOWTO docs indicate that they might not be supported. Dmesg reports: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A. But I'm really not clear as to whether to believe that. If it's reported in Dmesg does that indicate the the hardware was actually found? If so does the fact that I can't get any response from it mean that the hardware was found but that it just doesn't work? I have tried echo ATH1 /dev/ttyS00 with no results. I guess basically what I'm asking is whether I should start fooling around with IRQ settings, etc. or whether I'm wasting my time because this PCI modem just isn't supported. Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Ken Januski
Re: PCI modems
On Thursday 19 October 2000 11:45, Ken Januski wrote: Hi Can anyone point me in the right direction to help in configuring a USRobotics internal modem? Unless I missed something the Hardware Compatibility list didn't mention PCI though the MODEM HOWTO docs indicate that they might not be supported. Dmesg reports: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A. But I'm really not clear as to whether to believe that. If it's reported in Dmesg does that indicate the the hardware was actually found? If so does the fact that I can't get any response from it mean that the hardware was found but that it just doesn't work? I have tried echo ATH1 /dev/ttyS00 with no results. I guess basically what I'm asking is whether I should start fooling around with IRQ settings, etc. or whether I'm wasting my time because this PCI modem just isn't supported. Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Ken Januski Follow the link to the huge table here and check before you spend any more time on it... http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html jt -- Debian GNU/Linux [Woody] 2.4.0-test9-ReiserFS You mean there's a stable tree?
Re: PCI modems
Thanks John, I went to table and found that my modem was in fact listed with an OK in left hand column. So I believe it should work with Linux. I did ask Dell to make sure that they sent me a hardware modem not a Winmodem but I was beginning to wonder when I couldn't get it set up. So now that I have this info should I start experimenting with IRQs with setserial? I'm also curious as to whether I can believe what dmsg tells me. If it finds modem at ttyS00 does that mean it's really there or could this be a default setting from some configuration file? Thanks for any pointers you can give and thanks for your incredibly speedy response. Ken
Re: PCI modems
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 01:23:18PM -0400, Ken Januski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So now that I have this info should I start experimenting with IRQs with setserial? I'm also curious as to whether I can believe what dmsg tells me. If it finds modem at ttyS00 does that mean it's really there or could this be a default setting from some configuration file? Thanks for any pointers you can give and thanks for your incredibly speedy response. Read the NAG - _Network Administrator's Guide_, and the Modem HOWTO. I'd probably jumper the modem for COM3/IRQ4. Hunt and poke through minicom until you can raise it. ATH1 is a good test string -- should bring up a dial tone. Find the applicable Hayes command set for your modem, you're going to want to enable and crank up the speaker, as that's about the only diagnostic tool you've got. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpzsct28m8aV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Fw: PCI modems
Thanks Leonardo I tried cat /proc/pci but didn't find anything labeled Communication. But I did find a serial controller with same vendor ID as my modem so I figured this was probably it. The lines in file were: I/O at 0xcf00 [0xcf01]. Bus 1, device 13, fucntion 0: Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1). Vendor id = 12b9. Devide id =1008 Medium devsel. IRQ 3. I/0 at 0xcf00 [0xcff1] Based on that I changed the IRQ in /etc/serial.conf from 4 to 3. Then ran /etc/init.d/setserial start, just as you suggested. But now rather than getting no response, i.e. I'm quickly returned to command prompt, I hang until I eventually hit Control/c. Do you think it's possible that I'm using wrong tty. I'm using ttyS0. I changed that from ttyS00 at someone else's suggestion. But I still seem to be getting no response. Wvdial reports modem not responding when I try using it. Thanks again for any further suggestions. Ken - Original Message - From: Leonardo Dias [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ken Januski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 2:43 PM Subject: Re: PCI modems So now that I have this info should I start experimenting with IRQs with setserial? I'm also curious as to whether I can believe what dmsg tells me. If it finds modem at ttyS00 does that mean it's really there or could this be a default setting from some configuration file? Thanks for any pointers you can give and thanks for your incredibly speedy response. It's really easy. Do a cat /proc/pci You'll find a communication device in some IRQ. Get that IRQ number and open your /etc/serial.conf Change the IRQ in there, then run /etc/init.d/setserial start or something like that. That's all you need. :-)) -- Leonardo Dias Analista Programador / Analyst Programmer Catho Online www.catho.com.br
PCI modems with Linux?
Hi, I and my friend have a problem with Linux. In some documents we read that PCI modems can not be used, because of the structure of Linux. Searched some sources, we couldn't find any usable info about this, so please help! Both my friend and I have 56k PCI Rockewell compatible modems (no winmodems) without any Linux- relate thing. I'd like to ask some kind of short tutorial about how to install the needed software-pieces and what steps to follow for a functional internet-connection. Sorry, if this is a boring question. In this case, please anyone who answer, do it to my own addres. Thank you. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCI modems with Linux?
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 12:32:06PM +0800, gou.dedalus wrote: I and my friend have a problem with Linux. In some documents we read that PCI modems can not be used, because of the structure of Linux. Searched some sources, we couldn't find any usable info about this, so please help! Both my friend and I have 56k PCI Rockewell compatible modems (no winmodems) without any Linux- relate thing. I'd like to ask some kind of short tutorial about how to install the needed software-pieces and what steps to follow for a functional internet-connection. The first step is to determine if your modems will work or not. The vast majority of PCI modems are winmodems, but there are a few that will work with Linux. Check the Linux/Modem Compatibility Knowledge Base at http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html and look up your particular modems. There are Rockwell-based modems that are winmodems, and some that actually work (and some that work but have troubles). Another quick way to test is to use minicom to access the modem (you need to know which /dev/ttyS* it's on. COM1 in DOS - /dev/ttyS0, COM2-/dev/ttyS1, etc). Send it various AT commands, and see if it responds correctly. Once you know your modem works, look into the pppconfig package. It makes ppp setup very easy. -- finger for GPG public key. 8 Jan 2000 - Old email addresses removed from key, new added pgpKYGviDBw9D.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: PCI modems with Linux?
All you should need to set up the modem is what serial port it is on. For example, my modem is on Com4, so I just told pppconfig, etc, to use /dev/ttyS3, and everything worked. You can use dmesg |more to find out what devices the kernel is finding. You can use the command lspci to find out what PCI devices are being detected. For an explanation of why PCI support is not great in kernels 2.2.x, read the PCI Bus Not Yet Well Supported in the Modem-Howto. If you have the Linux Howto's installed, you can find that in /usr/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Modem-HOWTO.txt. That howto suggestes to email the output of the lspci command to the maintainer of the serial driver. Once you get Linux talking to your modem, you need to install some packages, and run the debian ppp configuration tool: $ apt-get install pppconfig ppp $ pppconfig On 10-Feb-2000 gou.dedalus wrote: Hi, I and my friend have a problem with Linux. In some documents we read that PCI modems can not be used, because of the structure of Linux. Searched some sources, we couldn't find any usable info about this, so please help! Both my friend and I have 56k PCI Rockewell compatible modems (no winmodems) without any Linux- relate thing. I'd like to ask some kind of short tutorial about how to install the needed software-pieces and what steps to follow for a functional internet-connection. Sorry, if this is a boring question. In this case, please anyone who answer, do it to my own addres. Thank you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
Re: PCI modems with Linux?
Hi, I and my friend have a problem with Linux. In some documents we read that PCI modems can not be used, because of the structure of Linux. Searched some sources, we couldn't find any usable info about this, so please help! Both my friend and I have 56k PCI Rockewell compatible modems (no winmodems) without any Linux- relate thing. I'd like to ask some kind of short tutorial about how to install the needed software-pieces and what steps to follow for a functional internet-connection. Sorry, if this is a boring question. In this case, please anyone who answer, do it to my own addres. Thank you. AFAIK, there are PCI modems that work under Linux with no special configuration. See http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/PCImodems.html for more information. According to the documentation there, it is possible that your modem is Linux compatable (a real modem as oposed to a software modem). Best of luck! WinModems /dev/null! -ptw
Re: PCI modems with Linux?
look your modem(s) up on this page: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/2207b.html confirm they are not winmodems, chances are if you paid less then $90 US. it is a winmodem. anyways if it is not, i think it would be easiest to contact tech support from the company that makes it and ask em how to get the modem working in dos MODE. if it works in dos mode it works in linux, pretty much gauranteed. if it needs some special driver/program you can load it in dos mode then boot linux iwth loadlin. nate On 10 Feb 2000, gou.dedalus wrote: dedalu Hi, dedalu dedalu I and my friend have a problem with Linux. In some documents we dedalu read that PCI modems can not be used, because of the structure dedalu of Linux. Searched some sources, we couldn't find any usable info dedalu about this, so please help! Both my friend and I have 56k PCI dedalu Rockewell compatible modems (no winmodems) without any Linux- dedalu relate thing. I'd like to ask some kind of short tutorial about how to dedalu install the needed software-pieces and what steps to follow for a dedalu functional internet-connection. dedalu dedalu Sorry, if this is a boring question. In this case, please anyone who dedalu answer, do it to my own addres. dedalu dedalu Thank you. dedalu dedalu dedalu dedalu dedalu [EMAIL PROTECTED] dedalu dedalu dedalu -- dedalu Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null dedalu dedalu dedalu -- dedalu Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null dedalu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:18pm up 174 days, 10:32, 1 user, load average: 1.06, 1.06, 1.04
Re: PCI modems with Linux?
Hi There are a few pci modems that can be made to work with Linux I have heard that modems based on the lucent chip set can be made to work with Linux. I can't help you further, you can search the deb user mailing list for lucent, winmodem ... These comments were this past fall. Hope this helps. David On 10 Feb 2000, gou.dedalus wrote: Hi, I and my friend have a problem with Linux. In some documents we read that PCI modems can not be used, because of the structure of Linux. Searched some sources, we couldn't find any usable info about this, so please help! Both my friend and I have 56k PCI Rockewell compatible modems (no winmodems) without any Linux- relate thing. I'd like to ask some kind of short tutorial about how to install the needed software-pieces and what steps to follow for a functional internet-connection. Sorry, if this is a boring question. In this case, please anyone who answer, do it to my own addres. Thank you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I'm hoping this is all of the above!)
PCI Modems and Trident cards
Hi I have a PCI modem which I cant seem to get Linux to see. There also dose not seem to be a Trident 975 driver for X windows. Do I have to run the PCI module, which I installed with dselect of the Debian website? Will this program detect the modem? Shanta
Re: PCI modems
Be careful of the PCI modems. All the ones I've seen so far are Winmodem types. These WILL not work in Linux. jmb [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi! I'm new to this list, but I've been using Debian (bo) for about eight months. I hope you can help me with a question I haven't been able to answer. Can anyone point me to information about setting up a PCI modem card to work with PPP and/or SLIP? I've been trying to find information about this from the normal sources (howto's, faq's, ldp, etc.), but so far I haven't found anything to let me know even if I can use a PCI modem card with Linux. Does anyone have any experience with this, or know where I can find information? TIA. +===+ | Shawn Harrison | One does not discover new lands| | Associate Editor| without consenting to lose sight of | | Tyndale House Publishers| the shore for a very long time.| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | --Andre Gide | +===+
Do PCI modems need something special?
Hi, I have a generic 56K PCI modem supplied with my system. I was assured by the vendor that this was not a winmodem. The documentation that was supplied with the modem is not for a PCI modem so I can't trust anything it says. The only thing I know about this modem is that it has Lucent chipset and claims to be a MDP7800-U as far as windows is concerned. On linux, I setserial recognizes it on /dev/ttyS3 after I tell it that it is on irq 10 and give it the ioport of 0xdc00. It lists the UART correctly. stty -a /dev/ttyS3 gives a sensible response. However, I can't get any response out of any comm programs when I try to connect to the modem device. Is there something special I have to do, is this kind of device not supported, or did I get screwed by the vendor and get a winmodem anyway? How do I tell? Thanks, Eric Stern
