On Thursday 22 April 2004 16:58, Douglas Royds wrote: > The winmodem driver is by Smart Link, www.smlink.com. The readme file > said that the installation would: > > - create character tty device entry '/dev/ttySL0' with major > number 212 and symbolic link 'dev/modem'. > - config you '/etc/modules.conf' file in order to provide > possibility for loading the modem modules into kernel on demand > automatically by kmod, when you are going to use them. > > I tried lsmod, but got: "bash: lsmod: command not found". Surprising, > seeing there is a man page for it. I guess it isn't in my path, so where > is it? Here's my path: /sbin/lsmod
> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11R6/bi >n:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/home/douglas/bin > Here're the /dev/modem symbolic link, and the ttySL0 device: > > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Apr 21 2004 /dev/modem -> > ./ttySL0 > crw-rw---- 1 douglas tty 212, 0 Apr 21 2004 /dev/ttySL0 > > Does my name in the /dev/ttySL0 entry mean that I'm the owner? yes, > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630 Host (rev 31) > 00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0) > 00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 > 00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > Controller (rev 07) > 00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02) > 00:01.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Intel 537 [56k Winmodem] > (rev a0) > 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual > PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) > 00:08.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01) > 00:08.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > SiS630 GUI Accelerator+3D (rev 31) > How do you find out who the group is? the group owner is the word to the immediate right of your name, i.e. the tty group. > Here's what lspci had to say: I wonder if you could do it with the -vv flag as root so we have all the details. $ su Password: # lspci -vv and post the bit about the modem. > And more specifically, from /proc/pci: > > 00:01.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Intel 537 [56k Winmodem] > (rev a0) (prog-if 00 [Generic]) > Subsystem: Unknown device 1631:3005 > Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11 > I/O ports at 1400 [size=256] > I/O ports at 1800 [size=128] > Capabilities: <available only to root> It might well be interesting to do this as root. > rpm -q ppp: > ppp-2.4.1-12mdk > > kppp is not installed, though I could probably do so off the M9.2 disks. > Should I do this? I'm guessing the "k" refers to KDE, which I don't have > installed. In that case don't install kppp just yet. Doing so will load up all sorts of KDE libraries as well. That may or may now be what you want. > Just installed minicom. I seem to have to run this as root. It said > "Initialising modem", then popped up its terminal screen, and I made no > further progress. What next? Typing atz had no visible effect. You have to configure minicom to 'talk' to your modem. Do this as the 'root' user with the -s option flag:- minicom -s It would appear that this is the latest stable driver:- ftp://ftp.smlink.com/linux/unsupported/slmdm-2.7.14.tar.gz Which is mirrored locally at:- ftp://ftp2.jetstreamgames.co.nz/pub/dist/gentoo/distfiles/slmdm-2.7.14.tar.gz And this is the beta one:- ftp://ftp.smlink.com/linux/unsupported/slmodem-2.9.6.tar.gz Have you got the correct and latest driver? Geographically, where is this recalcitrant modem situated? -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
