Forward to ivo (fwd) trying alternate address (PCTel modem onUbuntu (Warty) kernel 2.6.8)

[marvstod at rcn.com]

Ivo

Re: . Trying the smartlink driver from: 
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/ 

Sadly NO! The SmartLink software does NOT support device Pctel 134d:xxxx
devices. The PCtel modem business has beem bought by Conexant and they have
NO interest in updating the Linux support code

Here is a general support suggestion however.
Ubunto should include the slamr.ko driver in its releases as SuSE has begun
with the 9.1 release, at my suggesion and with the approval of
SashaK at smlink.com. Under Debian it is provided as the package
sl-modem-source

The slamr.ko enables a test which will diagnose modem codec for some 90% of
the soft modems.

# modprobe slamr
prompts a diagnostic analysis of the softmodem hardware, 
which can next be selectively read by
# dmesg | grep slamr

The critical output is a line including:
  mc97 codec is XXXnm   
with n,m digits

If  XXX is SIL
for SILicon Lab supplier, then the SmartLink slmodem-2.9.n software usually
support the softmodem,
OR alternately the snd-intel0xm.ko driver (in the regular kernel releases
now) with slmodem-2.9.9-alsa creating ports.
see my Modem/Slmodem.txt for details

If XXX is CXT
 the only option is the hsflinmodem software from www.linuxant.com for
ConeXanT soft modems

If XXX is BCM
  it is a Broadcom modem and snd-intel0xm.ko driver with slmodem-2.9.9-alsa 
MAY serve, through we don't have a success report yet.

MarvS
scanModem maintainer

Original Message:
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From: Ivo Marino eim at mentors.workaround.org
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:55:10 +0100
To: marvstod at rcn.com, ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Forward to ivo (fwd) trying alternate address (PCTel modem
onUbuntu (Warty) kernel 2.6.8)


On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 16:37 -0500, marvstod at rcn.com wrote:

> Ivo,
> 
Hello Marv,

> Sadly, only under 2.4.n is there currently support for:
> Class 0703: 134d:2189   Modem: PCTel Inc:   
>   SubSystem 134d:1002   PCTel Inc: 
> 
Argh, this is what I've expected but hoped it won't be the case.
Now I can explain the failures during PCTel driver compilation.

> Code folks have been  working for some time to achieve an update
> to 2.6.n , but thus far without success.
> 
I found also an unofficial PCTel driver for kernel 2.6.0 which anyway
did not compile on 2.6.8. It's expected to work only on 2.6.0 and is
also experimental.

> Look at Modem/General.txt for alternative modem suggestions.
> 
At this point I think I three options:

	. Trying the smartlink driver from:
          http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/
          
	. Switching Ubuntu from kernel 2.6.8 to 2.4.x.
          (I really would like to avoid this!)

	. Replace the internal PCTel PCI modem with an external one.
          (Brute force solution to the problem ;)

Any suggestions regarding this? Thanks.

> MarvS
> 
Thank you very much for support.
Best regards,

 I.

P.S. I Cc: this email to the ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com mailing list
in order to involve also the Ubuntu community. Folks there may have my
same troubles with internal PCI modems (PCTel).

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