modem works in sarge but not etch or lenny
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I have a V1456VQH-X pnp ISA card that I only use for sending and receiving faxes. It worked in Sarge but I have not been able to get it to work in my Lenny/Sid box.
I reinstalled sarge on a different partition and the modem still works so it is not a hardware issue. I believe it is a kernel issue since it works with kernel2.4 and not with kernel 2.6. Although it works in 2.4 (sarge) I have not been able to find any log messages or dmesg output to tell me exactly what the kernel is doing iwth it. All I know is that minicom with /dev/ttyS1 returns OK when I type AT.
I also went to an old partition with etch i(2.6.2.6.18-3-k7 #1 SMP Mon Dec 4 17:23:11 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux) and it also doesn't seem to work.
dmsg returns the following:
> isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
> isapnp: Card '56K PnP DATA FAX VOICE Modem'
> isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
>
So it does seem like the kernel finds it. When I go to /sys/devices/pnp1/01:01/name I find "56K PnP DATA FAX VOICE Modem"
and the file /sys/devices/pnp1/01:01/01:01.00/resources has "state = disabled"
After "echo AUTO > resources" the file resources contains:
state = disabled
io 0x2e8-0x2ef
irq 5
When I try running scanModem from linuxant it tells me that I need some proprietary driver from them but, as I said, the card worked in sarge. I don't know whether there was a decision to stop supporting some devices or this is a bug or I am just not configuring things right. (If it is a configuration issue that would also indicate a documentation bug.) I would like to post a bug but am not sure to which package it would go. I guess to the
linux-image2.6 package.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Nathan Salwen
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