Re: Lucent winmodem on Debian?

[Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow@compuserve.com>]

thanks for your suggestions.  I have tried them, with some result.

David Reviejo wrote:

> I had some relative success (see below) with this on my Toshiba
> Satellite 2540CDS putting
> 
>     alias char-major-62 ltmodem
> 
> in /etc/conf.modules (remember the debian way to do this is to put a
> "ltmodem" file with this line in /etc/modutils, and run "update-modules)
> After that, if your /lib/modules/2.2.x/modules.dep is updated
> (depmod -a), the ltmodem module is loaded when is needed.


> This is a warning (I got the same message with 2.2.13).
> 
> > /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/ltmodem.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> 
> There is a problem with your device. Are you sure you have a Lucent
> winmodem?. Check your BIOS: is the modem enabled?. Does it work with
> _another_ OS?. Do you have the /dev/ttyS14 device?; take a look at the
> "linst" script, and make sure it has the same owner/perms your other
> /dev/ttySx serial devices.

Here are some new clues:

These are the entries for my current (external) modem and the installed
ltmodem port.
crw-rw----   1 root     uucp       4,  65 Jul 23 11:04 /dev/ttyS1
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     uucp      62,  78 Jan  9 07:46 /dev/ttyS14

also,

this is the result of >depmod -av

/lib/modules/2.2.12/fs/nls_cp437.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/fs/nls_cp850.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/fs/nls_cp852.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/fs/nls_cp863.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/fs/nls_iso8859-1.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/fs/nls_iso8859-2.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/fs/nls_iso8859-15.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/net/ppp.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/net/slhc.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/net/ppp_deflate.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/net/plip.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/net/bsd_comp.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/net/dummy.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/scsi/sr_mod.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/ad1848.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/adlib_card.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/lp.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/mpu401.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/opl3.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/opl3sa2.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/soundcore.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/uart401.o
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/ltmodem.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/ltmodem.o

This suggests to me that it may be all right, except that my 2.2.12
kernel actually doesn't have some of the supporting calls that the
ltmodem.o driver makes, so that using a 2.2.13 kernel might do.

Also, on boot, I receive a series of lines stating that char-major-4
couldn't be found.  conf.modules lists this as 'serial'.  These messages
do not make their way into 'dmesg', so I don't have them to show,
although I'll try to get them for you.

What do you think?

Thanks in advance,
Bret