Seeking help getting a modem to work in potato + some unstable. The modem is
on a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 + 56K Modem PC Card, model no. PCMLM56.
When the laptop was running Slink (installed from official CD set) the modem
worked but the ethernet did not. Now the ethernet works but the modem does
not. More details below, all help welcome.
Nick
The laptop brand is "M-TECH".
The bios:
(these descriptions appear during boot sequence):
SystemSoft MobilePRO BIOS Version 1.01 (2482-00)-(R1.14)
SystemSoft Plug-n-Play BIOS Ver 1.17.01
(version according to "Version Info" in BIOS setup):
1.00.03, Date: 10/22/97
PnP OS support is disabled.
In Win98, the modem and ethernet both work.
Here is what Win98 reports about the modem:
Port COM3
Interrupt 11
Address 3E8
UART NS 16550AN
On rebooting into Linux without switching power off, Linux does not see the
PCMCIA sockets.
Here is a portion of dmesg after rebooting from Win98 without switching off
power:
>>>
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.14
kernel build: 2.2.14 unknown
options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
PCI routing table version 1.0 at 0xfe840
Intel PCIC probe:
Bridge register mapping failed: check cb_mem_base setting
not found.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
<<<
Switching power off before booting makes the sockets visible to Linux. (I'm
not particularly worried about this, just reporting it in case relevant.)
Here is dmesg in full after rebooting from power off:
>>>
Linux version 2.2.14 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000313 (Debian
GNU/Linux)) #1 Tue Apr 25 10:11:42 EST 2000
Detected 466683316 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 465.31 BogoMIPS
Memory: 127088k/131072k available (1700k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1732k
data, 140k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 128k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k)
Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xeb190
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536)
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9)
apm: disabled on user request.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1100-0x1107, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1108-0x110f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: TOSHIBA MK6411MAT, ATA DISK drive
hdc: TORiSAN DVD-ROM DRD-U624, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: TOSHIBA MK6411MAT, 6194MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=839/240/63
hdc: ATAPI 0X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
IBM MCA SCSI: No Microchannel-bus support present -> Aborting.
DC390: 0 adapters found
megaraid: v1.05 (October 27, 1999)
aec671x_detect:
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
Adding Swap: 130748k swap-space (priority -1)
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.14
kernel build: 2.2.14 unknown
options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
PCI routing table version 1.0 at 0xfe840
Intel PCIC probe:
TI 1225 rev 01 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:0a, mem 0x68000000
host opts [0]: [ring] [serial pci & irq] [pci irq 10] [lat 168/176] [bus
32/34]
host opts [1]: [ring] [serial pci & irq] [pci irq 10] [lat 168/176] [bus
35/37]
ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,7,9,11 PCI status changes
cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: excluding 0x1000-0x103f 0x1400-0x140f
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
eth0: NE2000 Compatible: io 0x300, irq 3, hw_addr 00:E0:98:08:EA:C2
tty02 at 0x0af8 (irq = 3) is a 16450
eth0: found link beat
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP]
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
<<< (end dmesg)
Here are some versions reported by dpkg --status:
kernel-image 2.2.14-5
pcmcia-cs 3.1.14-1
pcmcia-modules 3.1.14-2k5
ppp 2.3.11-1.4
According to the BIOS setup screen, the laptop has two built-in serial ports:
Serial Port 1 = COM 1, 3F8, IRQ 4
Serial Port 2 = COM 2, 2F8, IRQ 3
Here is "setserial -ag /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS1 /dev/ttyS2" after booting and
before inserting the card:
>>>
/dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000
Flags: spd_normal skip_test session_lockout
/dev/ttyS1, Line 1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000
Flags: spd_normal skip_test session_lockout
/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
<<<
Here is /var/run/stab after booting and before inserting the card:
Socket 0: empty
Socket 1: empty
Here is "setserial -ga /dev/ttyS2" after inserting the card:
>>>
/dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: 16450, Port: 0x0af8, IRQ: 3
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000
Flags: spd_normal skip_test
<<<
Here is /var/run/stab after inserting the card:
Socket 0: empty
Socket 1: Linksys EtherFast LANmodem 56K
1 network pcnet_cs 0 eth0
1 serial serial_cs 0 ttyS2 4 66
Here is part of /var/log/daemon.log:
>>>
Apr 30 09:00:19 nicknote init: Switching to runlevel: 6
Apr 30 09:00:22 nicknote modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-45
Apr 30 09:00:22 nicknote modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-45
Apr 30 09:00:23 nicknote cardmgr[139]: exiting
Apr 30 09:01:40 nicknote cardmgr[139]: starting, version is 3.1.14
Apr 30 09:01:40 nicknote cardmgr[139]: watching 2 sockets
Apr 30 09:01:43 nicknote modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-45
[*** now I insert the card ***]
Apr 30 09:14:20 nicknote cardmgr[139]: initializing socket 1
Apr 30 09:14:20 nicknote cardmgr[139]: socket 1: Linksys EtherFast LANmodem 56K
Apr 30 09:14:21 nicknote cardmgr[139]: executing: 'insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/8390.o'
Apr 30 09:14:21 nicknote cardmgr[139]: executing: 'insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.o'
Apr 30 09:14:21 nicknote cardmgr[139]: executing: 'insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/serial_cs.o'
Apr 30 09:14:21 nicknote cardmgr[139]: executing: './network start eth0'
Apr 30 09:14:21 nicknote cardmgr[139]: executing: './serial start ttyS2'
<<<
Here is an extract from /var/log/messages, after inserting the card:
>>>
Apr 30 10:49:53 nicknote kernel: eth0: NE2000 Compatible: io 0x300, irq 3,
hw_addr 00:E0:98:08:EA:C2
Apr 30 10:49:53 nicknote kernel: tty02 at 0x0af8 (irq = 3) is a 16450
Apr 30 10:49:54 nicknote kernel: eth0: found link beat
<<<
Here is "lsmod" after inserting the card:
>>>
Module Size Used by
serial_cs 5388 0 (unused)
pcnet_cs 8992 1
8390 6072 0 [pcnet_cs]
parport_probe 3140 0 (autoclean)
parport_pc 7172 1 (autoclean)
lp 5124 0 (autoclean) (unused)
parport 7256 1 (autoclean) [parport_probe parport_pc lp]
ds 6344 2 [serial_cs pcnet_cs]
i82365 22196 2
pcmcia_core 44288 0 [serial_cs pcnet_cs ds i82365]
serial 19660 1 (autoclean) [serial_cs]
vfat 9008 0 (unused)
nfs 28352 0 (unused)
lockd 31112 1 [nfs]
sunrpc 52420 1 [nfs lockd]
autofs 9120 0 (unused)
unix 10116 23 (autoclean)
<<<
Here is /etc/pcmcia/serial.opts:
>>>
# Serial device configuration
#
# The address format is "scheme,socket,instance".
#
case "$ADDRESS" in
*,*,*)
INFO="Default modem setup"
# Symbolic link to dialout device
LINK="/dev/modem"
# Options for 'setserial'
SERIAL_OPTS=""
# Should we create an inittab entry for this port?
# If using mgetty ...
#INITTAB="/sbin/mgetty"
# If using getty ...
#SPEED=<set the speed here>
#INITTAB="/sbin/getty $SPEED"
;;
esac
<<<
Here is "egrep -v '#|^ *$' /etc/ppp/options":
>>>
asyncmap 0
auth
crtscts
lock
hide-password
modem
proxyarp
lcp-echo-interval 30
lcp-echo-failure 4
noipx
<<<
Here is /etc/ppp/peers/provider:
>>>
# This file was generated by pppconfig. You can edit the following lines
# but please do not delete lines or the change the comments or you will
# confuse pppconfig.
noauth #pppconfig_noauth
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider" #pppconfig_connect
debug #pppconfig_debug
/dev/ttyS2 #pppconfig_dev
115200 #pppconfig_speed
defaultroute #pppconfig_route
noipdefault #pppconfig_ipdefault
user nickjw #pppconfig_user
# End of pppconfig controlled lines. You can add lines below here without
# confusing pppconfig.
remotename provider
<<<
Here is /etc/chatscripts/provider:
>>>
# This chatfile was generated by pppconfig 2.0.5.
# Please do not delete any of the comments. Pppconfig needs them.
#
# ispauth PAP
# abortstring
ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT 'NO DIAL
TONE' ABORT 'NO ANSWER'
# modeminit
'' ATZ
# ispnumber
OK-AT-OK ATDT18587949783
# ispconnect
CONNECT \d\c
# prelogin
# ispname
# isppassword
# postlogin
# end of pppconfig stuff
<<<
Here is "ls -l /dev/modem":
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 30 09:14 /dev/modem ->
/dev/ttyS2
Here is an extract of /var/log/syslog after "pon":
>>>
Apr 30 09:42:25 nicknote kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the
University of California
Apr 30 09:42:25 nicknote kernel: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
Apr 30 09:42:25 nicknote kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
Apr 30 09:42:25 nicknote kernel: registered device ppp0
Apr 30 09:42:25 nicknote pppd[306]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Apr 30 09:42:26 nicknote chat[307]: abort on (BUSY)
Apr 30 09:42:26 nicknote chat[307]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Apr 30 09:42:26 nicknote chat[307]: abort on (VOICE)
Apr 30 09:42:26 nicknote chat[307]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Apr 30 09:42:26 nicknote chat[307]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE)
Apr 30 09:42:26 nicknote chat[307]: abort on (NO ANSWER)
Apr 30 09:42:26 nicknote chat[307]: send (ATZ^M)
Apr 30 09:42:27 nicknote chat[307]: expect (OK)
Apr 30 09:43:12 nicknote chat[307]: alarm
Apr 30 09:43:12 nicknote chat[307]: send (AT^M)
Apr 30 09:43:12 nicknote chat[307]: expect (OK)
Apr 30 09:43:57 nicknote chat[307]: alarm
Apr 30 09:43:57 nicknote chat[307]: Failed
Apr 30 09:43:57 nicknote pppd[306]: Connect script failed
Apr 30 09:43:58 nicknote pppd[306]: Exit.
<<<
