Modem Install Problems

[NoSpam@fnmail.com]

I have a Mandrake 9.1 distribution on my machine almost for 10 days.
In these days I've learned everything I know about Linux:), but I'm
still learning. The most frustrating thing in Linux world so far was
the modem's driver installation.
The modem is Sweex, Intel Ambient chipset, Hayes compatible 56k, V92.
I searched the web, found several drivers (i)Intel-v92ham-453.tgz
seems to be the right one, downloaded them from Sweex's and Intel's
sites, both, installed kernell-source, followed the installation
procedure, but the result is still 0.
Kppp anounces me about the error "because of non existing
/dev/modem?", but I can see it in /dev dir?!

I also found this suggestion, too;
There should be a symbolic link at /dev/modem pointing to /dev/ham. If
it's not there create it.

I created a symbolic link and still nothing.
Should I try deinstall installed drivers and/or delete some folders,
before I try some more times (I don't even know the Uninstalling
procedure in Linux world:(

I tried, also, with /sbin/ifup ppp0, but got the message:

[root@localhost XX]# /sbin/ifup ppp0
Failed to activate ppp0 with error 2
What is Err2?

I've already tried everything I knew. This is bigger than my Linx
knowledge.
Down there is log listed....
Please, help me. TIA.
Jr



[root@localhost tmp]# tar xvfz Intel-v92ham-453.tgz
Intel-v92ham-453/Intel-v92ham-453/coredrv/
Intel-v92ham-453/coredrv/clmmain.c
Intel-v92ham-453/coredrv/coredrv.c
Intel-v92ham-453/coredrv/rts.c
Intel-v92ham-453/coredrv/task.c
Intel-v92ham-453/coredrv/uart.c
Intel-v92ham-453/coredrv/wwh_dflt.c
Intel-v92ham-453/coredrv/makefile
Intel-v92ham-453/coredrv/hamcore.lib
Intel-v92ham-453/hamboot
Intel-v92ham-453/haminst
Intel-v92ham-453/inc/
Intel-v92ham-453/inc/hamdefs.h
Intel-v92ham-453/inc/hamcore.h
Intel-v92ham-453/inc/rts.h
Intel-v92ham-453/inc/uart.h
Intel-v92ham-453/inc/wwh_dflt.h
Intel-v92ham-453/inc/tasker.h
Intel-v92ham-453/inc/sys_ver.h
Intel-v92ham-453/license.txt
Intel-v92ham-453/makefile
Intel-v92ham-453/readme.txt
Intel-v92ham-453/serialdrv/
Intel-v92ham-453/serialdrv/gpl.txt
Intel-v92ham-453/serialdrv/clmdrvr.c
Intel-v92ham-453/serialdrv/makefile
Intel-v92ham-453/hamregistry
Intel-v92ham-453/config_check
[root@localhost tmp]# cd Intel-v92ham-453
[root@localhost Intel-v92ham-453]# make clean
cd coredrv; make clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/Intel-v92ham-453/coredrv'
rm -f *.o *~ core
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/Intel-v92ham-453/coredrv'
cd serialdrv; make clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/Intel-v92ham-453/serialdrv'
rm -f *.o *~ core
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/Intel-v92ham-453/serialdrv'
rm -f *.o
rm -f *.o
[root@localhost Intel-v92ham-453]# make ham
Module precompile check
Current running kernel is: 2.4.21-0.13mdk
/lib/modules... autoconf.h exists
diff: /boot/vmlinuz.autoconf.h: No such file or directory
autoconf.h matches running kernel
diff: /boot/vmlinuz.version.h: No such file or directory
version.h matches running kernel
cd coredrv; make \
"PSTN_DEF=-DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX
-DLINUX" \
ham;
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/Intel-v92ham-453/coredrv'
cc -DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX -DLINUX -Wall -O
-I /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -I../inc -c -o coredrv.o
coredrv.c
cc -DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX -DLINUX -Wall -O
-I /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -I../inc -c -o clmmain.o
clmmain.c
cc -DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX -DLINUX -Wall -O
-I /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -I../inc -c -o rts.o rts.c
cc -DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX -DLINUX -Wall -O
-I /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -I../inc -c -o task.o
task.c
cc -DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX -DLINUX -Wall -O
-I /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -I../inc -c -o uart.o
uart.c
cc -DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX -DLINUX -Wall -O
-I /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -I../inc -c -o wwh_dflt.o
wwh_dflt.c
ld -r coredrv.o clmmain.o rts.o task.o uart.o wwh_dflt.o hamcore.lib
-o hamcore.o
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/Intel-v92ham-453/coredrv'
cp coredrv/hamcore.o .
cd serialdrv; make \
"PSTN_DEF=-DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX
-DLINUX" \
ham;
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/Intel-v92ham-453/serialdrv'
cc -DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX -DLINUX -Wall -O
-I /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -I ../inc -c -o clmdrvr.o
clmdrvr.c
ld -r clmdrvr.o -o ham.o
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/Intel-v92ham-453/serialdrv'
cp serialdrv/ham.o .
[root@localhost Intel-v92ham-453]# make install
bash haminst
running kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk
installing hamregistry, used for persistant storage
installing ham module
installing hamcore module
mandrake hamboot script
starting module and utilities
error loading ham
done
************************
I don't know what is the reason for this "error loading ham"??
I've tried the suggestion from the driver's archive and the result is
the following log:

[root@localhost Intel-v92ham-453]# insmod -f hamcore.o
Warning: loading hamcore.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license -
Proprietary
See [url]http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted[/url] for information about
tainted modules
Warning: loading hamcore.o will taint the kernel: forced load
Module hamcore loaded, with warnings
[root@localhost Intel-v92ham-453]# insmod -f ham.oWarning: loading
ham.o will taint the kernel: forced load
See [url]http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted[/url] for information about
tainted modules
ham.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.

From dmesg I received the notice that:

open failed.
hamcore module init
ham: device not found.

I have no more ideas. Help, pls!

[Peter T. Breuer]

[email]NoSpam@fnmail.com[/email] wrote:

> still learning. The most frustrating thing in Linux world so far was
> the modem's driver installation.

Modems don't have drivers. You must have a winmodem instead.

> The modem is Sweex, Intel Ambient chipset, Hayes compatible 56k, V92.

No, that's a winmodem.

> I searched the web, found several drivers (i)Intel-v92ham-453.tgz
> seems to be the right one, downloaded them from Sweex's and Intel's

Just don't use the thing. Get a porper modem.

> sites, both, installed kernell-source, followed the installation
> procedure, but the result is still 0.
> Kppp anounces me about the error "because of non existing
> /dev/modem?", but I can see it in /dev dir?!

I can't. Anyway, why are you using /dev/modem instead of where the
serial device provided by the driver is? ...

> There should be a symbolic link at /dev/modem pointing to /dev/ham. If

.... There you are! You did know!

> it's not there create it.
> I created a symbolic link and still nothing.

But is /dev/ham there? If not, create it!

> Should I try deinstall installed drivers and/or delete some folders,

No, you should show us what you have done and what you see. You haven't
convinced me that you have loaded the driver or created a device file
for it. You haven't shown us the kernel's messages on loading the
module, etc. etc.

> before I try some more times (I don't even know the Uninstalling
> procedure in Linux world:(

I don't understand. If you loaded the driver you can unload it!

> I've already tried everything I knew. This is bigger than my Linx
> knowledge.

Provide some data. Tell us what you have done. Show us what you see.


Peter

[dj.jr@fnmail.com]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:36:11 +0200, "Peter T. Breuer"
<ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote:

>Just don't use the thing. Get a porper modem.

Yes. This could be an option:)

>> it's not there create it.
>> I created a symbolic link and still nothing.

>
>But is /dev/ham there? If not, create it!

No. You are right. But should I create it manually if I can't do this
by installation?

>
>No, you should show us what you have done and what you see. You haven't
>convinced me that you have loaded the driver or created a device file
>for it. You haven't shown us the kernel's messages on loading the
>module, etc. etc.

I simply don't know how to get it.
Maybe you think about /var/log/messages?
There are more than 25000 lines in it!?
Speaking about it is there a way to save the whole history of messages
as 1 file, instead of saving each display?

I noticed that after all these days of trying to get it work I can see
now, during the boot in the section a message:
Finding module dependencies:
depmod *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/kernel 2.4.21...../ham.o
and the same with the end ////....hamcore.o
Everything was just OK earlier..

>I don't understand. If you loaded the driver you can unload it!

I don't understand how to unload it? Maybe I use too small part of
"Linux part of my mind", but I need a training to improve it. Without
the suggestions I can't just intuitively guess how to do something in
Linux. It maybe looks silly, but at the moment this is the situation
for me:(

>Provide some data. Tell us what you have done. Show us what you see.

I 've already written it. I installed kernell-source, than I took a
driver from the modem manufacturer's site. After that I moved it into
/tmp dir.
Speaking about it is there a rule where to move the files you want to
install in Linux?
After that I followed the procedures and nothing happened.
In the mean time I tried lspci -v and got the following message (among
the other things):

01:08.0 Communication controller: Intel Corp. 536EP Data Fax Modem
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1000
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]

The former driver suggested by the manufacturer was
Intel-v92ham-453.tgz. Maybe I should try with 1 of suggested drivers
at linmodems:
in the range from Intel-536ep-448.tgz up to Intel-536ep-453.tgz (I
suppose that in the driver's name should be the string from lspci
"536ep".
I only don't know how to recognize which is the right second number
(i.e. after 536ep, 448, 451, 453? What is this all about? )
Thank you for your response and suggestions. I will send you more
informations if you want, just tell me what is the interesting part to
look in it for the problem.
Dj Jr

[Andreas Janssen]

Hello

[email]dj.jr@fnmail.com[/email] (<dj.jr@fnmail.com>) wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:36:11 +0200, "Peter T. Breuer"
> <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote:

>>No, you should show us what you have done and what you see. You
>>haven't convinced me that you have loaded the driver or created a
>>device file for it. You haven't shown us the kernel's messages on
>>loading the module, etc. etc.

>
> I simply don't know how to get it.
> Maybe you think about /var/log/messages?
> There are more than 25000 lines in it!?

You can check /var/log/kern.log if it exists. And it doesn't matter if
/var/log/messages has 25000 lines. The messages are listed in the order
they were produced. Scroll to the end of the file and look there. Or
install something like console-log to have the messages printed to some
console (if Mandrake has a package like that). Or use tail. Or use grep
to find lines containing a certain pattern like "ham".

> I noticed that after all these days of trying to get it work I can see
> now, during the boot in the section a message:
> Finding module dependencies:
> depmod *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/kernel 2.4.21...../ham.o
> and the same with the end ////....hamcore.o
> Everything was just OK earlier..

This sounds like it could be the reason for your problem. With this
problem, loading driver module very probably will fail. Maybe this is
the reason for the error message during installation of the driver.

>>I don't understand. If you loaded the driver you can unload it!

>
> I don't understand how to unload it?

You can use lsmod to list loaded modules and rmmod to unload them.

>>Provide some data. Tell us what you have done. Show us what you see.

>
> I 've already written it. I installed kernell-source, than I took a
> driver from the modem manufacturer's site. After that I moved it into
> /tmp dir.

Maybe the Kernel has to be configured properly to install the driver
successfully, using the configuration file of your running kernel and
maybe running "make dep". But I don't know how Mandrake package their
kernel source.

> After that I followed the procedures and nothing happened.
> In the mean time I tried lspci -v and got the following message (among
> the other things):
>
> 01:08.0 Communication controller: Intel Corp. 536EP Data Fax Modem
> Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1000
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
> Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
>
> The former driver suggested by the manufacturer was
> Intel-v92ham-453.tgz. Maybe I should try with 1 of suggested drivers
> at linmodems:
> in the range from Intel-536ep-448.tgz up to Intel-536ep-453.tgz (I
> suppose that in the driver's name should be the string from lspci
> "536ep".
> I only don't know how to recognize which is the right second number
> (i.e. after 536ep, 448, 451, 453? What is this all about? )

Intel has a page for these devices:
<http://developer.intel.com/design/modems/support/drivers.htm>

There is a link called "Intel® 536EP PCI Drivers". Sounds like this is
where you should go. I cannot check further, at the moment I am getting
timeouts trying to load the page.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

--
Andreas Janssen
[email]andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com[/email]
PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674
Registered Linux User #267976

[Peter T. Breuer]

[email]dj.jr@fnmail.com[/email] wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:36:11 +0200, "Peter T. Breuer"
> <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote:

>>> it's not there create it.
>>> I created a symbolic link and still nothing.

>>
>>But is /dev/ham [the link target] there? If not, create it!

> No. You are right. But should I create it manually if I can't do this
> by installation?

I don't understand what you are trying to ask. What is the difference
between doing by hand and doing by hand (i.e. by starting an
installation by hand)? Is not one simply a more roundabout way of doing
the same thing?

Are you asking for some kind of blessing? Moral support? It won't make
any difference to the result!

>> show us what you have done and what you see. You haven't
>>convinced me that you have loaded the driver or created a device file
>>for it. You haven't shown us the kernel's messages on loading the
>>module, etc. etc.

> I simply don't know how to get it.

Get what?

> Maybe you think about /var/log/messages?

No. I mean the output from "dmesg". Maybe the kernel buffer that you
see in dmesg is saved in messages, maybe not. That's up to you and your
configuration of syslogd. More likely it's in boot.log or kernel.log or
syslog or something like that. But it's not improbable that it's in
messages (too). Often messsages is configured as a catch-all.

> There are more than 25000 lines in it!?

I should hope so. Find the right ones. Clue: they're the ones dated at
the time you did "it".

> Speaking about it is there a way to save the whole history of messages

What messages?

> as 1 file, instead of saving each display?

I don't understand what you mean. Wnat messages? What display?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm ... maybe you are talking about error and standard
output (not messages) to the terminal you are on. Maybe you think that
you can save a screenful (not a display) at a time only, for some
reason. Can't you grab all of it with the mouse?

Anyway, if you start "script" first and then log out of it when you are
finished, everything you and the machine produce will be in the
file typescript.

> I noticed that after all these days of trying to get it work I can see
> now, during the boot in the section a message:
> Finding module dependencies:
> depmod *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/kernel 2.4.21...../ham.o

There you are. They don't load.

Run depmod -ae and let's have a look at what the missing symbols are.

How did you compile this? You're missing out 95% of the story! How do
you expect us to guess it?

> and the same with the end ////....hamcore.o
> Everything was just OK earlier..

How do you know? What is your evidence?

>>I don't understand. If you loaded the driver you can unload it!

> I don't understand how to unload it? Maybe I use too small part of

You unload it the same way you loaded it. Tell us how you did it.
We cannot guess.

But the messages you just showed said that you can't load it.

> "Linux part of my mind", but I need a training to improve it. Without
> the suggestions I can't just intuitively guess how to do something in

But you are not telling us what you did .. When you tell us how you
loaded it, you can then look at the man page for the command you used
and then tell us how to use that command or a similar one to unload it.

No?

> Linux. It maybe looks silly, but at the moment this is the situation

>>Provide some data. Tell us what you have done. Show us what you see.

> I 've already written it. I installed kernell-source, than I took a

What do you mean? Be precise. What command did you execute, and what
was the result? Errors?

> driver from the modem manufacturer's site. After that I moved it into

What driver? Tell us the site. Tell us the file. Show us the commands
you used. Precisely. Line by line.

> /tmp dir.

Why?

> Speaking about it is there a rule where to move the files you want to
> install in Linux?

No. I don't think you're installing anything yet anyway! I believe you
have an archive (not a file).

> After that I followed the procedures and nothing happened.

What procedure? Where did you get this procedure from? What did it
consist of? Show us what you did, step by step, and what happened
at eash step.

> 01:08.0 Communication controller: Intel Corp. 536EP Data Fax Modem
> Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1000
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
> Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]

Fine. Intel nonmodem.

> The former driver suggested by the manufacturer was

Former?

> Intel-v92ham-453.tgz. Maybe I should try with 1 of suggested drivers

Aha! A datum!! Well done!

> at linmodems:
> in the range from Intel-536ep-448.tgz up to Intel-536ep-453.tgz (I
> suppose that in the driver's name should be the string from lspci
> "536ep".

Those look like newer and newer versions. Go for the newest.

You have a tgz. So likely when you untar it there will be instructions
in a README. Show us the instructions. Show us what you did. Show us
the results.

> I only don't know how to recognize which is the right second number
> (i.e. after 536ep, 448, 451, 453? What is this all about? )

I don't understand quite what you are looking for. Likely they're just
numbers.

I am guessing, but maybe you executed a script? Did you have to supply
answers to some questions?

Peter

[Douglas Mayne]

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:46:14 -0600, NoSpam wrote:

> I have a Mandrake 9.1 distribution on my machine almost for 10 days. In
> these days I've learned everything I know about Linux:), but I'm still
> learning. The most frustrating thing in Linux world so far was the
> modem's driver installation.
> The modem is Sweex, Intel Ambient chipset, Hayes compatible 56k, V92. I
> searched the web, found several drivers (i)Intel-v92ham-453.tgz seems to
> be the right one, downloaded them from Sweex's and Intel's sites, both,
> installed kernell-source, followed the installation procedure, but the
> result is still 0. Kppp anounces me about the error "because of non
> existing /dev/modem?", but I can see it in /dev dir?!
>
> <snip>
>
> From dmesg I received the notice that:
>
> open failed.
> hamcore module init
> ham: device not found.
>
> I have no more ideas. Help, pls!
>

Are you sure this is the exact modem covered by this driver. Check the
model number at linmodems.org.

I have a modem which is covered by this driver and here is the relevant startup
info:

from $>cat /proc/pci

PCI devices found:
Communication controller: PCI device 8086:1040 (Intel Corp.) (rev 0).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xda000000 [0xda3fffff].

from $>dmesg

hamcore module init
ham: loading 536EP Release 4.51 INT (kern:2.4.20-rc3) - Nov 26 2002
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0a.0
ham: IRQ: 5, DSP-Base: 0xda000000 (phys) 0xe09b2000 (virt) (range: 4096k), DSP-Port: 0x0 (range: 0b)

--Douglas Mayne

[dj.jr@fnmail.com]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:25:35 +0200, "Peter T. Breuer"
<ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote:

>I don't understand what you are trying to ask. What is the difference
>between doing by hand and doing by hand (i.e. by starting an
>installation by hand)? Is not one simply a more roundabout way of doing
>the same thing?

I don't know. I have to discover it or somebody will tell me. I am not
quite sure I'm understanding what you are trying to say..

>Are you asking for some kind of blessing? Moral support? It won't make
>any difference to the result!

No, I don't ask neither of blessing nor moral support. Sorry because
of misunderstanding. English is not native language of mine.

>No. I mean the output from "dmesg". Maybe the kernel buffer that you
>see in dmesg is saved in messages, maybe not. That's up to you and your
>configuration of syslogd. More likely it's in boot.log or kernel.log or
>syslog or something like that. But it's not improbable that it's in
>messages (too). Often messsages is configured as a catch-all.

dmesg output is (sorry for the length of this message, I know that
this is not appropriate from the Usenet's FAQ viewpoint, but I want
to give all the people asked from me in order to get help)
dmesg

Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=306 devfs=mount
hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1531.039 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3053.97 BogoMIPS
Memory: 515096k/524224k available (1410k kernel code, 8740k reserved,
1118k data, 136k init,

0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ stepping 00
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
...... CPU clock speed is 1531.0402 MHz.
...... host bus clock speed is 266.2678 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 2662678, slice: 1331339
CPU0<T0:2662672,T1:1331328,D:5,S:1331339,C:2662678 >
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122
ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off)
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb9c0, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus ff [IRQ]
PCI: Using IRQ router default [10de/01e0] at 00:00.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xe0800000, size 65536k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=41
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:56e3
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Looking for splash picture.... no good signature found.
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS
MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ

SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform

Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:09.0
NFORCE2: chipset revision 162
NFORCE2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: Maxtor 6Y080L0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03cb420, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: ASUS CRW-5224A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=9964/255/63,
UDMA(33)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 >
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 107k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.0 to 64
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe483b000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, PCI device 10de:0067 (nVidia Corporation)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.1 to 64
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe483d000, IRQ 5
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.1, PCI device 10de:0067 (nVidia Corporation)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.2 to 64
ehci-hcd 00:02.2: PCI device 10de:0068 (nVidia Corporation)
ehci-hcd 00:02.2: irq 10, pci mem e4856000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ehci-hcd 00:02.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2002-Dec-20
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 6 ports detected
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,6), internal journal
Adding Swap: 1180736k swap-space (priority -1)
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: ASUS Model: CRW-5224A Rev: 1.35
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
NTFS driver 2.1.1a [Flags: R/O MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.0.
MSDOS FS: IO charset utf8
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-0.13mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [email]okir@monad.swb.de[/email]).
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 15:29:58 Mar 14 2003
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:06.0 to 64
i810: NVIDIA nForce Audio found at IO 0xe800 and 0xe400, MEM 0x0000
and 0x0000, IRQ

5i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG32 (ALC650)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0, new EID value = 0x05c7
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0, DAC map configured, total channels = 6
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
hamcore module init
ham: device not found.
hamcore module cleanup
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.

>> Speaking about it is there a way to save the whole history of messages

>
>What messages?
>

>> as 1 file, instead of saving each display?

>
>I don't understand what you mean. Wnat messages? What display?

The messages in /var/log/messages
There is a possibility to save just the content of currently shown
window (I don't know how to express it clearer, I tried not to use
this word in Linux group, but it seems that "display" is more
confusing:). I wondered is there any chance to save all of the
messages of this dir with 1 command instead of PageDown-Save History,
PgDown-Save History and so on some several hundred times....

>Run depmod -ae and let's have a look at what the missing symbols are.

# depmod -ae
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/char/ham.o
depmod: schedule_timeout
depmod: __wake_up
depmod: tty_unregister_driver
depmod: __generic_copy_from_user
depmod: tty_std_termios
depmod: __release_region
depmod: tq_immediate
depmod: tty_register_driver
depmod: pci_enable_device
depmod: vfree
depmod: pcibios_present
depmod: free_irq
depmod: free_pages
depmod: __ioremap
depmod: bh_task_vec
depmod: request_irq
depmod: tty_flip_buffer_push
depmod: pci_find_device
depmod: __tasklet_hi_schedule
depmod: jiffies
depmod: printk
depmod: ioport_resource
depmod: get_zeroed_page
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/char/hamcore.o
depmod: enable_irq
depmod: schedule_timeout
depmod: __wake_up
depmod: schedule
depmod: __udelay
depmod: create_proc_entry
depmod: interruptible_sleep_on_timeout
depmod: del_timer
depmod: interruptible_sleep_on
depmod: disable_irq
depmod: remove_proc_entry
depmod: schedule_task
depmod: proc_root
depmod: jiffies
depmod: printk
depmod: add_timer
depmod: __const_udelay

>What driver? Tell us the site. Tell us the file. Show us the commands
>you used. Precisely. Line by line.

The driver was from [url]www.sweex.com[/url] site. The manufacturer of my modem.
The file is Intel-v92ham-453.tgz

>> /tmp dir.

>
>Why?

I read in some online article that is preferable to put an archive in
this dir. Is there any other suggestion maybe?

>What procedure? Where did you get this procedure from? What did it
>consist of? Show us what you did, step by step, and what happened
>at eash step.

>> at linmodems:
>> in the range from Intel-536ep-448.tgz up to Intel-536ep-453.tgz (I
>> suppose that in the driver's name should be the string from lspci
>> "536ep".

>
>Those look like newer and newer versions. Go for the newest.

I've just tried it and this is what I got:
[root@localhost XX]# cd /tmp
[root@localhost tmp]# tar -zxvf Intel-536ep-453.tgz
Intel-536ep-453/
Intel-536ep-453/536ep-boot
Intel-536ep-453/536ep-inst
Intel-536ep-453/coredrv/
Intel-536ep-453/coredrv/clmmain.c
Intel-536ep-453/coredrv/coredrv.c
Intel-536ep-453/coredrv/rts.c
Intel-536ep-453/coredrv/task.c
Intel-536ep-453/coredrv/uart.c
Intel-536ep-453/coredrv/wwh_dflt.c
Intel-536ep-453/coredrv/makefile
Intel-536ep-453/coredrv/536epcore.lib
Intel-536ep-453/inc/
Intel-536ep-453/inc/hamdefs.h
Intel-536ep-453/inc/hamcore.h
Intel-536ep-453/inc/rts.h
Intel-536ep-453/inc/uart.h
Intel-536ep-453/inc/wwh_dflt.h
Intel-536ep-453/inc/tasker.h
Intel-536ep-453/inc/sys_ver.h
Intel-536ep-453/license.txt
Intel-536ep-453/makefile
Intel-536ep-453/readme.txt
Intel-536ep-453/serialdrv/
Intel-536ep-453/serialdrv/gpl.txt
Intel-536ep-453/serialdrv/clmdrvr.c
Intel-536ep-453/serialdrv/makefile
Intel-536ep-453/hamregistry
Intel-536ep-453/config_check
[root@localhost tmp]# cd Intel-536ep-453
[root@localhost Intel-536ep-453]# make clean
cd coredrv; make clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/Intel-536ep-453/coredrv'
rm -f *.o *~ core
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/Intel-536ep-453/coredrv'
cd serialdrv; make clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/Intel-536ep-453/serialdrv'
rm -f *.o *~ core
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/Intel-536ep-453/serialdrv'
rm -f *.o
rm -f *.o
[root@localhost Intel-536ep-453]# make ham
make: *** No rule to make target `ham'. Stop.
[root@localhost Intel-536ep-453]# make install
bash 536ep-inst
running kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk
installing hamregistry, used for persistant storage
installing 536EP module
install: cannot stat `536ep.o': No such file or directory
installing 536ep core module
install: cannot stat `536epcore.o': No such file or directory
mandrake 536ep-boot script
starting module and utilities
error loading 536epcore
done
[root@localhost Intel-536ep-453]#

>You have a tgz. So likely when you untar it there will be instructions
>in a README. Show us the instructions. Show us what you did. Show us
>the results.

The instructions are:

ReadMe file for the
Intel MD563X-HaM V.92 chipset Linux driver

contents:
1. License
2. Release Notes
3. Installation
4. File Descriptions
5. International

Users
6. Beta Tester appreciation
7. Security issues
8. Compilation issues
a.

Instructions for Debian Users
b. Kernel Source
9. What is the Hamregistry?
10. what's

v92 and v44?
11. The Hamregistry tool (for persistance)
12. Known Bugs/Issues
13. Comments,

ideas, problems, fixes

Release Notes
This release supports 2.4.x kernels.
This release is not compatible to 2.2.x kernels, please use
the 333-5 Linux HaM driver.
The HaM corecode binary was compiled with gcc version 3.2
v92 support added: modem on hold AT command set,
PCM upstream, v44, and quick connect are implemented.
Linux Compatability tests are performed on the latest or
previous
versions of the following distributions: Mandrake, RedHat, and
SuSE
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3. INSTALLATION
Prerequisites:
1. root access
2. bash shell to run install scripts
3. a HaM modem
4. KERNEL SOURCE HEADERS FOR THE KERNEL YOU ARE RUNNING
(found on your distribution's CD)
6 steps to install
1. login as ROOT
2. extract the archive into a directory with "tar -zxvf
<archivename>.tgz"
3. cd into the directory it created.
4. Type: make clean
5. Type: make ham
6. Type: make install

The driver is split in two. A ham serial driver and core driver.
The core driver must be loaded first since the serial driver depends
on it.
The serial driver registers itself as character device
major number 240, minor number 1.
The serial driver takes one argument right now, which is a number to
override the default major number if you need to.
ATTENTION: if the driver compiles but the script just wont work for
you.
Here are the bare minimum steps to get your modem to work.
0. log in as root.
1. insmod -f hamcore.o 2. insmod -f ham.o
2a. you can start "hamregistry" at this point if you wish.
3. rm /dev/ham
4. mknod /dev/ham c 240 1 (note "240" is the default, if it does
not
work see what /proc/devices says ham's major number is)
5. ln -s /dev/ham /dev/modem
6. start a comm application like minicom and use the modem.
7. see section 3 (International Users) for info on setting the
correct

> country settings.

After I tried these commands I can see during the system booting this
message:
Finding module dependencies:
depmod:*** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/moduls/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/char/ham.o
depmod:*** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/moduls/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/char/hamcore.o





-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4. FILE DESCRIPTIONS
haminst installation script to install HaM modules and supporting
files
files copied to /lib/modules/(kernel-version)/misc
hamcore.o driver core code module
ham.o pseudo serial driver for HaM, depends on
hamcore.o

files copied to /etc/rc.d/... (path differes per distribution)
hamboot boot scrip to start and stop HaM modules
files copied to /usr/sbin
hamregistry hamregistry is the "registry" like tool that the modem
uses to
get and store persistant data such as county info and profile
strings.

files copied to /etc
hamregistry.bin file that stores the initial persistant data
for modem.

>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I tried to find these files (ham.o, hamcore.o, hamboot, hamregistry
and hamregistyr.bin) and hamregistry is the only one I could find at
the place where they say it should be..

>7. Security

<
issues

the haminst and hamboot file install the files and device nodes as
root for the

owner and group.
this will cause problems for those who want to user the modem to

dialout
using an account other than root.

In SuSE, "dialout" is the group used to install

the files and device node.
This way, anyone belonging to the "dialout" group can use the

modem to dialout.
(take a look at /etc/group)

I did not want the script to allow full

access of the modem to everyone without
"root" knowing.

Edit the hamboot and haminst

scripts to fit your needs.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

>8. Compile

issues
a. this driver will now compile with the this path:
/lib/modules/<kernel

version>/build/include
the 2.4.4+ kernels says to copy the /boot/vmlinuz.version.h


over to the kernel build path. I have the makefile do this
if this file exists. You

must install the kernel source
code anyways. It should be on your distribution's CD.
______________________________


Thank you for your time.
Best regards D. Djakovic
djakovic NO_SPAM at uns.ns.ac.yu

[Andreas Janssen]

Hello

[email]dj.jr@fnmail.com[/email] (<dj.jr@fnmail.com>) wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 20:26:53 +0200, Andreas Janssen
> <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote:

>>Maybe the Kernel has to be configured properly to install the driver
>>successfully, using the configuration file of your running kernel and
>>maybe running "make dep". But I don't know how Mandrake package their
>>kernel source.

>
> Now I am wondering what is the way to configure Kernel?
> I am learning all the time:)

I don't know how Mandrake handles this, but on my Debian system I have
so far used two ways to compile modules (like the nvidia driver):

1. installing the kernel headers package matching my kernel (I don't
know if Mandrake has them packaged separately or if maybe they are
already installed by default)

2. installing the source, copying the configuration file for my kernel
from /boot/ to /usr/src/linux/.config, setting the right EXTRAVERSION
in the Makefile and running make clean and make dep. However I don't
know if on Mandrake systems the configuration file comes with the
kernel package and where it is.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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