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Compaq N620c modem not working



Hello,

I have problems installing Debian on a laptop Compaq N620c. Everiything is running properly, but I need some help to configure the modem. I am using kernel version 2.4.22.



# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3340 (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3341 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24c2 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24c4 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24c7 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24cd (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino 2) Chipset PCI (-M) (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24cc (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24ca (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24c5 (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24c6 (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LW
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:06.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:0e.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation: Unknown device 165d (rev 01)


It seems to be 00:1f.6


#  lspci -vvn
00:1f.6 Class 0703: 8086:24c6 (rev 03)
        Subsystem: 0e11:0058
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: I/O ports at 3400 [size=256]
        Region 1: I/O ports at 3800 [size=128]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
         Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
         Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-


I have tried running the utility scanModem from http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/ and produced the fallowing output:


...
The modem Subsystem operates under an AC'97 or MC97 controller
 which sends digital signal processing tasks to the digital audio card.
 So the digital audio system MUST be functional for the modem to work.

 The AC'97 or MC97 Controller is:
    8086:24c6                         82801DB (ICH4) +  .
 Many soft modems under this controller are supported by the
 SmartLink slmodem-2.9.4 or slmdm-2.7.10 drivers,
 even though an AC'97 modem_codec may not be displayed.
...


So I installed the slmodem-2.9.1 from http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/  (i couldn't find anywhere the 2.9.4 driver). It seems to be installed properly, because there is no message on the  syslog


# modprobe slamr
# lsmod
marmellar:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
ppp_generic            18368   0  (autoclean)
slhc                    4416   0  (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
slamr                 248356   0
radeon                 45444   0
drmlib                 46496   0  [radeon]
hid                     9308   0  (unused)
ext3                   58340   5  (autoclean)
jbd                    37992   5  (autoclean) [ext3]
usbmouse                1788   0  (unused)
smbfs                  33072   1
i810_audio             24168   0
bcm5700                97348   1


But when, I try to set up the modem with "pon", I get the fallowing output on my syslog::

Jan 15 11:03:39 marmellar pppd[6674]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Jan 15 11:03:39 marmellar pppd[6674]: tcgetattr: No such file or directory(2)
Jan 15 11:03:40 marmellar pppd[6674]: Exit.

I have "googled" this error but I haven't found anything. Do you know what's happenning?
Do you know any how-to or tutorial about installing modems on Linux, so I'm new on this Linux world and I don't know if I am configuring it properly.

Thanks in advance and sorry for my English    ;-)

--Gerard Forns


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