My modem appears to work fine under Linux.
Also, I am testking Jack's alpha sound drivers, and it seems to work
reasonably just now. Ofcourse, no mixers or anything flash like that at
this stage, but it's a start.
You are talking about the iBook2's yes? How are you accessing the modem? What
are you compiling into the kernal to get access to it? Where are the sound
drivers? Are they accessable? I was aware of that kind of support for
firewire iBooks.....but not iBook2's because of the "Tumbler" audio chipset
that runs in conjunction with I2C bus. Please, can you send me more info?
I am using one of the new 2001 ibooks (dual usb, firewire).
The modem seems to work file, I am using 2.4.6-benh as my kernel, and this
is what I see in dmesg:
PowerMac Z8530 serial driver version 2.0
tty00 at 0xc98da020 (irq = 22) is a Z8530 ESCC (cobalt modem)
tty01 at 0xc98e1000 (irq = 23) is a Z8530 ESCC
pointing minicom at /dev/ttyS0 seems to be a modem (atleast I can type
"ATZ" and it says "OK").
My .config file is attached (ignore the wierdo networking shit, I have
been working on wierd shit for work).
The URL for the drivers is:
http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~pfh/ibook/sound.html
But be warned, I have been using Linux for a while, and it took me a while
to get it working (it's still broken, it's sending unsigned data to the
driver, and the card wants signed or something - but at least I get a nice
console beep.)
I will attach the contents of my /etc/init.d/hacksound also (it doesn't
like sleep at this stage, so it's a good idea to put it in pwrctl to shut
it down on sleep).
Let me know if you need any help, and if anyone on the list is interested
in helping, I am sure that Jack would like to see some patches.