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RE: Modems on PowerBook 3400



Hokay,

I've tried going through my /usr/share/docs.  Problem is, I have a minimal 
installation, so I don't have many.  But, it was slow at work today, and I 
was able to look through some of the more relevant HOW-TOs, namely 
"serial" and "modem".  Both of those said "if you have a PCMCIA modem, 
consult the PCMCIA How-To".  It has been stated earlier in this thread 
that, wrt Macs, the PCMCIA How-To is, er, less that satisfactory (although 
I believe a more colourful metaphor was used).

I was given a couple of hopeful commands from the other How-To's.  I don't 
seem to have "scanport" installed, and it's not on my Potato disks.  I'm 
going to throw the results of everything else out there in hopes that 
somebody can tell me the relevant piece of information on how to connect my 
PCMCIA card to my /dev/modem and dial out when I type "pon".  Let me 
apologise here for wasting bandwidth (especially for those of us in Europe 
that have to pay for our internet phone calls).  But, I don't know what is 
relevant information.

So, from the command "lspci -vv" I got:

: 00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Bandit PowerPC host bridge (rev 03)
:  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: 32, cache line size 08
: 
: 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21041 [Tulip Pass 3] (rev 21)
:  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: 32
:  Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 60
:  Region 0: I/O ports at 0400 [size=128]
:  Region 1: Memory at 80802000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
:  Expansion ROM at 80880000 [disabled] [size=256K]
: 
: 00:0e.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. O'Hare I/O (rev 01)
:  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: 32, cache line size 08
:  Region 0: Memory at 80900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
: 
: 00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. O'Hare I/O (rev 01)
:  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: 32, cache line size 08
:  Region 0: Memory at f3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
: 
: 00:11.0 VGA compatible controller: Chips and Technologies F65550 (rev 45) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
:  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-
:  Region 0: Memory at 81000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
:  Expansion ROM at 80840000 [disabled] [size=256K]
: 
: 00:13.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1130 (rev 04)
:  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: 168, cache line size 08
:  Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
:  Region 0: Memory at 80804000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
:  Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=04, sec-latency=176
:  Memory window 0: 80000000-803ff000 (prefetchable)
:  Memory window 1: f3400000-f37ff000
:  I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
:  I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
:  BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset+ 16bInt- PostWrite+
:  16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
: 
: 00:13.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1130 (rev 04)
:  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: 168, cache line size 08
:  Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 23
:  Region 0: Memory at 80803000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
:  Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=09, sec-latency=176
:  Memory window 0: 80400000-807ff000 (prefetchable)
:  Memory window 1: f3800000-f3bff000
:  I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
:  I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
:  BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset+ 16bInt+ PostWrite+
:  16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001


Don't know why Card Services (or whatever) keeps identifying my card as 
CardBus.  I would have sworn that Apple only provided a 16-bit bridge on 
the 3400.  If it is, in fact, CardBus 32-bit, then I no longer have to 
rely on legacy hardware.  Anyway, here is my /proc/interrupts:

:            CPU0       
:   4:          0   PMAC-PIC  Edge      SCC-txdma
:   5:          0   PMAC-PIC  Edge      SCC-rxdma
:   6:          0   PMAC-PIC  Edge      SCC-txdma
:   7:          0   PMAC-PIC  Edge      SCC-rxdma
:   8:          0   PMAC-PIC  Edge      Built-in Sound out
:   9:          0   PMAC-PIC  Edge      Built-in Sound in
:  12:         15   PMAC-PIC  Edge      MESH
:  13:       4717   PMAC-PIC  Edge      ide0
:  14:          5   PMAC-PIC  Edge      ide1
:  15:          0   PMAC-PIC  Edge      SCC
:  16:          0   PMAC-PIC  Edge      SCC
:  17:          0   PMAC-PIC  Edge      Built-in Sound misc
:  18:      38220   PMAC-PIC  Edge      VIA-PMU
:  19:          0   PMAC-PIC  Edge      SWIM3
:  22:          0   PMAC-PIC  Level     Texas Instruments PCI1130
:  23:          0   PMAC-PIC  Level     Texas Instruments PCI1130 (#2)
:  28:          5   PMAC-PIC  Level     cascade
:  60:          5   GATWICK   Level     eth0
: BAD:          0


(what's the deal with airports?  O'Hare, Gatwick?)  Here's what I got from 
typing "lsmod":

: Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P  
: lp                      7936   0  (unused)
: irnet                  28092   0  (unused)
: irlan                  26648   0  (unused)
: udf                    93904   0  (unused)
: msdos                   6256   0  (unused)
: fat                    35228   0  [msdos]
: autofs                 12592   0  (unused)
: dmasound_pmac          47144   0  (unused)
: i2c-core               14776   0  [dmasound_pmac]
: dmasound_core          13640   0  [dmasound_pmac]
: sound                  73480   0  (unused)
: soundcore               4840   5  [dmasound_core sound]
: st                     29604   0  (unused)
: sg                     34452   0  (unused)
: serial_cs               4928   0  (unused)
: ds                      8784   2  [serial_cs]
: serial                 53224   0  [serial_cs]
: isa-pnp                36968   0  [serial]
: yenta_socket           11216   2 
: i82092                  7812   0  (unused)
: pcmcia_core            43376   0  [serial_cs ds yenta_socket i82092]
: irtty                   7232   0  (unused)
: irport                  7552   0  (unused)
: irda                  108484   0  [irnet irlan irtty irport]
: ppp_async               8576   0  (unused)
: ppp_synctty             7088   0  (unused)
: slip                   11408   0  (unused)
: plip                   14040   0  (unused)
: parport                30624   0  [lp plip]
: pppoe                   9504   0  (unused)
: pppox                   1800   1  [pppoe]
: ppp_generic            24632   0  [irnet ppp_async ppp_synctty pppoe pppox]
: slhc                    4832   0  [slip ppp_generic]
: macserial              39364   0  (unused)
: rtc                     1792   0  (autoclean)

This "macserial" looks interesting.  Don't know what... it just does.  
Lastly, when I typed "setserial -gav /dev/ttyS*" I got:

: /dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16450, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 22
:  Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
:  closing_wait: 3000
:  Flags: spd_normal skip_test
: 
: /dev/ttyS1, Line 1, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
:  Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
:  closing_wait: 3000
:  Flags: spd_normal skip_test
: 
: /dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
:  Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
:  closing_wait: 3000
:  Flags: spd_normal skip_test
: 
: /dev/ttyS3, Line 3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
:  Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
:  closing_wait: 3000
:  Flags: spd_normal


I also tried "setserial /dev/ttyS* -v autoconfig", but ended up with the 
same information as the first line of the above quoted text.

One of the How-To's (like the PCMCIA) said to look at the serial table in 
/var/lib/pcmcia/stab.  I don't have a PCMCIA directory in /var/lib.  
Should I?  Or has it moved elsewhere (I vaguely remember seeing an "stab" 
in some directory... I just can't remember which one at the moment).

So, now that you've read this far, is there anything else I can do to try 
to get a connection to the outside world with Debian?

Thanks, once again!

Gratefully,
Aaron


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