Re: : : : Troubleshooting PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 10:22:50AM +0200, Raimo Niskanen wrote: Hi again, sorry to bother you again but who else would know? Can ayone make an educated guess on what has the best possibility to work for OpenBSD 4.1: * US Robotics USB modem * Other USB modem (Sweex) * ZONET ZFM5600 MODEM PC-CARD that is supposed have drivers for Linux * Any Serial line modem (Sweex) that claims to do AT commands For the archives: The ZONET ZFM5600 MODEM PC-CARD works perfectly with OpenBSD (4.1). It has a hardware-only Intel chipset. I would have posted a dmsg snipplet if I had the machine here. -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
Re: : : : Troubleshooting PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:06:37PM +0300, Jussi Peltola wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 06:49:57PM +1000, Craig Hammond wrote: A long long time ago in a very distant galaxy, I am pretty sure I got a Netcomm USB Roadster (AM5055) to work in OpenBSD 3.0 or 3.1 or something. I also have at least one USB modem lying in the closet, and like the other ones I have seen, it has an integrated USB-serial converter which should work just fine. With today's trends I wouldn't be surprised if software USB modems had emerged, however... It appears you were sadly right. I bought a Sweex 56k Modem External (USB) and it had got a Conexant HCF (controllerless) chipset. There are linux drivers from http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hcf/index.php, but there appears to be no BSD drivers. All it takes is someone to do the porting... At least it was not a HSF (softmodem) chipset, but nevertheless not runnable. My money down the drain... Fortunately it was cheep. -- Jussi Peltola -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
Re: : : : Troubleshooting PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756
* Raimo Niskanen wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:06:37PM +0300, Jussi Peltola wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 06:49:57PM +1000, Craig Hammond wrote: A long long time ago in a very distant galaxy, I am pretty sure I got a Netcomm USB Roadster (AM5055) to work in OpenBSD 3.0 or 3.1 or something. I also have at least one USB modem lying in the closet, and like the other ones I have seen, it has an integrated USB-serial converter which should work just fine. With today's trends I wouldn't be surprised if software USB modems had emerged, however... It appears you were sadly right. I bought a Sweex 56k Modem External (USB) and it had got a Conexant HCF (controllerless) chipset. There are linux drivers from http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hcf/index.php, but there appears to be no BSD drivers. All it takes is someone to do the porting... unfortunately that is not enough. the drivers are not free, you are only allowed to use them without modifications. At least it was not a HSF (softmodem) chipset, but nevertheless not runnable. My money down the drain... Fortunately it was cheep. -- Jussi Peltola -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
Re: : : : : Troubleshooting PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 12:05:27PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote: * Raimo Niskanen wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:06:37PM +0300, Jussi Peltola wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 06:49:57PM +1000, Craig Hammond wrote: A long long time ago in a very distant galaxy, I am pretty sure I got a Netcomm USB Roadster (AM5055) to work in OpenBSD 3.0 or 3.1 or something. I also have at least one USB modem lying in the closet, and like the other ones I have seen, it has an integrated USB-serial converter which should work just fine. With today's trends I wouldn't be surprised if software USB modems had emerged, however... It appears you were sadly right. I bought a Sweex 56k Modem External (USB) and it had got a Conexant HCF (controllerless) chipset. There are linux drivers from http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hcf/index.php, but there appears to be no BSD drivers. All it takes is someone to do the porting... unfortunately that is not enough. the drivers are not free, you are only allowed to use them without modifications. Ouch! But I saw somewhere at the Conexant (I think) web site that if someone was interesting in porting to other OS than Linux, he/she was welcome to contact them. At least it was not a HSF (softmodem) chipset, but nevertheless not runnable. My money down the drain... Fortunately it was cheep. -- Jussi Peltola -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
Re: : : : : Troubleshooting PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756
* Raimo Niskanen wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 12:05:27PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote: * Raimo Niskanen wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:06:37PM +0300, Jussi Peltola wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 06:49:57PM +1000, Craig Hammond wrote: A long long time ago in a very distant galaxy, I am pretty sure I got a Netcomm USB Roadster (AM5055) to work in OpenBSD 3.0 or 3.1 or something. I also have at least one USB modem lying in the closet, and like the other ones I have seen, it has an integrated USB-serial converter which should work just fine. With today's trends I wouldn't be surprised if software USB modems had emerged, however... It appears you were sadly right. I bought a Sweex 56k Modem External (USB) and it had got a Conexant HCF (controllerless) chipset. There are linux drivers from http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hcf/index.php, but there appears to be no BSD drivers. All it takes is someone to do the porting... unfortunately that is not enough. the drivers are not free, you are only allowed to use them without modifications. Ouch! But I saw somewhere at the Conexant (I think) web site that if someone was interesting in porting to other OS than Linux, he/she was welcome to contact them. if they give full docs, why not. if they give source code, it has to be under an acceptable licens, i.e. BSD or MIT. At least it was not a HSF (softmodem) chipset, but nevertheless not runnable. My money down the drain... Fortunately it was cheep. -- Jussi Peltola -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
Re: : : : : Troubleshooting PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756
On 2007/06/21 13:17, Marc Balmer wrote: if they give full docs, why not. if they give source code, it has to be under an acceptable licens, i.e. BSD or MIT. blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah Blah! (as if you didn't guess.. :-)
Re: : : Troubleshooting PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756
Hi again, sorry to bother you again but who else would know? Can ayone make an educated guess on what has the best possibility to work for OpenBSD 4.1: * US Robotics USB modem * Other USB modem (Sweex) * ZONET ZFM5600 MODEM PC-CARD that is supposed have drivers for Linux * Any Serial line modem (Sweex) that claims to do AT commands Serial lines are almost extinct on modern laptops, so I would prefer not to buy a serial line modem. On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:15:52PM +0200, Raimo Niskanen wrote: Thank you guys! I am looking for a new modem. Unfortunately is it hard to find your suggested ones in Sweden... On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:51:14AM -0700, Matthew Clarke wrote: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:21:35AM +0200, Raimo Niskanen may have written: Hi all! I have an old laptop on whith I want to use ppp to connect to Internet, using a PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756 Global GSM Cellular Modem PC Card First, I _think_ it shows up as /dev/cua03. In dmsg it pops up as device pccom3, and when trying with tip it appears that while the card is in it fails as described below, while the card is out it fails with device not configured. Nevertheless. ppp, minicom and tip all try to send AT commands but get no responses, as it appears. I do not see any logs, almost. ppp says it does ATZ^M and waits for OK which does not happen. minicom and tip try to dial and say it fails. Have you got any tip on how to troubleshoot this card, or does anyone know this card is a dead end and can name a proper serial line, USB or PCMCIA modem that is known to work? I don't know anything about that 3Com card. If you can't get it working, I do know that the following two (fairly old) PCMCIA modems work well for me with OpenBSD in a couple of laptops that I use: - Megahertz by USRobotics model XJ4288 - IBM 56K PC Card Modem (FRU 02K4249) -- Perfection [in design] is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but rather when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
Re: : : Troubleshooting PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756
Raimo Niskanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can ayone make an educated guess on what has the best possibility to work for OpenBSD 4.1: * US Robotics USB modem * Other USB modem (Sweex) never touched any of these myself, but there is hope that either of these would be usable as a umodem (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umodemapropos=0sektion=4manpath=OpenBSD+4.1arch=i386format=html) -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ First, we kill all the spammers The Usenet Bard, Twice-forwarded tales delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
Re: : : Troubleshooting PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756
Hi again, sorry to bother you again but who else would know? Can ayone make an educated guess on what has the best possibility to work for OpenBSD 4.1: * US Robotics USB modem * Other USB modem (Sweex) * ZONET ZFM5600 MODEM PC-CARD that is supposed have drivers for Linux * Any Serial line modem (Sweex) that claims to do AT commands Serial lines are almost extinct on modern laptops, so I would prefer not to buy a serial line modem. A long long time ago in a very distant galaxy, I am pretty sure I got a Netcomm USB Roadster (AM5055) to work in OpenBSD 3.0 or 3.1 or something. Craig...
Re: : : Troubleshooting PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 06:49:57PM +1000, Craig Hammond wrote: A long long time ago in a very distant galaxy, I am pretty sure I got a Netcomm USB Roadster (AM5055) to work in OpenBSD 3.0 or 3.1 or something. I also have at least one USB modem lying in the closet, and like the other ones I have seen, it has an integrated USB-serial converter which should work just fine. With today's trends I wouldn't be surprised if software USB modems had emerged, however... -- Jussi Peltola
Troubleshooting PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756
Hi all! I have an old laptop on whith I want to use ppp to connect to Internet, using a PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756 Global GSM Cellular Modem PC Card First, I _think_ it shows up as /dev/cua03. In dmsg it pops up as device pccom3, and when trying with tip it appears that while the card is in it fails as described below, while the card is out it fails with device not configured. Nevertheless. ppp, minicom and tip all try to send AT commands but get no responses, as it appears. I do not see any logs, almost. ppp says it does ATZ^M and waits for OK which does not happen. minicom and tip try to dial and say it fails. Have you got any tip on how to troubleshoot this card, or does anyone know this card is a dead end and can name a proper serial line, USB or PCMCIA modem that is known to work? -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
Re: Troubleshooting PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756
Raimo Niskanen wrote: Hi all! I have an old laptop on whith I want to use ppp to connect to Internet, using a PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756 Global GSM Cellular Modem PC Card First, I _think_ it shows up as /dev/cua03. In dmsg it pops up as device pccom3, and when trying with tip it appears that while the card is in it fails as described below, while the card is out it fails with device not configured. Nevertheless. ppp, minicom and tip all try to send AT commands but get no responses, as it appears. I do not see any logs, almost. ppp says it does ATZ^M and waits for OK which does not happen. minicom and tip try to dial and say it fails. Have you got any tip on how to troubleshoot this card, or does anyone know this card is a dead end and can name a proper serial line, USB or PCMCIA modem that is known to work? Can you show us the dmesg with the card inserted? -- OpenBSD on the Zaurus C3200 http://www.crowsons.com/puters/zaurus.htm
Re: Troubleshooting PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756
Hello, I have one of these cards. It won't work unless you use the 3Com drivers on Windows, and even then it doesn't work right. If you use a standard US Robotics external modem, preferably a Sportster, or even possibly a Zoom PCMCIA modem, they should work. Mitch -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raimo Niskanen Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:22 AM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Troubleshooting PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756 Hi all! I have an old laptop on whith I want to use ppp to connect to Internet, using a PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756 Global GSM Cellular Modem PC Card First, I _think_ it shows up as /dev/cua03. In dmsg it pops up as device pccom3, and when trying with tip it appears that while the card is in it fails as described below, while the card is out it fails with device not configured. Nevertheless. ppp, minicom and tip all try to send AT commands but get no responses, as it appears. I do not see any logs, almost. ppp says it does ATZ^M and waits for OK which does not happen. minicom and tip try to dial and say it fails. Have you got any tip on how to troubleshoot this card, or does anyone know this card is a dead end and can name a proper serial line, USB or PCMCIA modem that is known to work? -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
Re: Troubleshooting PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756
Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:21:35AM +0200, Raimo Niskanen may have written: Hi all! I have an old laptop on whith I want to use ppp to connect to Internet, using a PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756 Global GSM Cellular Modem PC Card First, I _think_ it shows up as /dev/cua03. In dmsg it pops up as device pccom3, and when trying with tip it appears that while the card is in it fails as described below, while the card is out it fails with device not configured. Nevertheless. ppp, minicom and tip all try to send AT commands but get no responses, as it appears. I do not see any logs, almost. ppp says it does ATZ^M and waits for OK which does not happen. minicom and tip try to dial and say it fails. Have you got any tip on how to troubleshoot this card, or does anyone know this card is a dead end and can name a proper serial line, USB or PCMCIA modem that is known to work? I don't know anything about that 3Com card. If you can't get it working, I do know that the following two (fairly old) PCMCIA modems work well for me with OpenBSD in a couple of laptops that I use: - Megahertz by USRobotics model XJ4288 - IBM 56K PC Card Modem (FRU 02K4249) -- Perfection [in design] is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but rather when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Re: : Troubleshooting PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756
Thank you guys! I am looking for a new modem. Unfortunately is it hard to find your suggested ones in Sweden... On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:51:14AM -0700, Matthew Clarke wrote: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:21:35AM +0200, Raimo Niskanen may have written: Hi all! I have an old laptop on whith I want to use ppp to connect to Internet, using a PCMCIA modem 3Com 3CXM756 Global GSM Cellular Modem PC Card First, I _think_ it shows up as /dev/cua03. In dmsg it pops up as device pccom3, and when trying with tip it appears that while the card is in it fails as described below, while the card is out it fails with device not configured. Nevertheless. ppp, minicom and tip all try to send AT commands but get no responses, as it appears. I do not see any logs, almost. ppp says it does ATZ^M and waits for OK which does not happen. minicom and tip try to dial and say it fails. Have you got any tip on how to troubleshoot this card, or does anyone know this card is a dead end and can name a proper serial line, USB or PCMCIA modem that is known to work? I don't know anything about that 3Com card. If you can't get it working, I do know that the following two (fairly old) PCMCIA modems work well for me with OpenBSD in a couple of laptops that I use: - Megahertz by USRobotics model XJ4288 - IBM 56K PC Card Modem (FRU 02K4249) -- Perfection [in design] is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but rather when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
