Hi, Went ahead and got one of these ... and the ltmodem source which I'm trying to compile under 2.6 what do you list when you "lspci" the modem? I get an unrecognised pcTel device .. number 2179 .. I am wondering if they have substituted a no name brand for the lectron modme you got ... either way compiling seems to be un straightforward .. so could you send me any tricks you used to get it compiled (fedora 2) thanks Stephen
From: Daniel Lawson <daniel(a)meta.net.nz> Date: 2004/06/18 Fri AM 08:59:46 GMT+12:00 To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Subject: Re: [wlug] modem
I'd get a Lectron I56PSP/F40 PCI modem from Ascent (http://www.ascent.co.nz/mn-product-spec.asp?pid=120287). $20.93, and it works well in linux.
Get the ltmodem drivers from http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/heby/ltmodem/. If you're running FC2 on a P2 or Celeron or later, you'll *probably* be ok to get the binary release drivers - make sure you get the right one for the kernel you are running however!
Just following this up - there are (or were, when I looked a month or two back), two sets of binary drivers - one for i386, one for i686. Except, the ones targetted for i386, were actually still compiled for i686. This means they will not work at all on an i586 system, such as a pentium, or a k6 or k6-2 processor.
If you've got a Celeron or Pentium 2 or later, or an AMD Athlon or Duron, you'll be fine.
Daniel
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Hi, On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 10:03, Stephen Pearce wrote:
Hi, Went ahead and got one of these ... and the ltmodem source which I'm trying to compile under 2.6 what do you list when you "lspci" the modem? I get an unrecognised pcTel device .. number 2179 ..
Not sure exactly what you mean when you say number 2179, are you talking about the vendor_id? Sorry if the answer below covers what you already know, just making sure. First of all, If you are able to I would suggest using the excellent ./scanmodem script that comes with the ltmodem distribution, it will hide all the nasty details of detecting your modem from you and simply tell you if it can find a supported modem or not. If ./scanmodem doesn't work then you can move on to using lspci. The point of this exercise is to determine whether your modem is a supported chipset. In the lspci output what you are looking for is the vendor id code for the modem device. If you look in the 1ST-READ file in the ltmodem source package there is an excellent walk through of how to interpret the lspci output. Basically you would do something like the following # lspci -nv And get the following output 00:0a.0 Class 0780: 11c1:0440 (rev 01) Subsystem: 11c1:0440 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 12 ... and so on What you are looking for is the 3rd item on the first line of output (11c1:0440) this is the vendor_id and device ID. Compare the vendor ID to the supported list in the 1ST-READ file. If they match you are away laughing.
I am wondering if they have substituted a no name brand for the lectron modme you got ... either way compiling seems to be un straightforward .. so could you send me any tricks you used to get it compiled (fedora 2)
I notice from the ltmodem webpage that only the ltmodem versions 8.31a3 and onwards seem to support kernel 2.6. What version of ltmodem are you trying to compile. Hope this helps. Regards -- Matt Brown Email: matt(a)mattb.net.nz GSM: +64 21 611 544
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