WinModem in 2.6.8 (Mandrake)

Hello all, I have been victorious in every aspect of setting up Linux
on this notebook, except this damned modem. News is my last ditch
effort, I certainly hope someone here can help me.
I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 notebook (yup, pretty old); the modem
identifies itself as a "Toshiba Internal V.90 modem" under Windoze with
the "LT" driver.
I have searched and scoured the 'net - and looked at nearly every page
related to this device, but can find nothing to get it working. The
closest I got was drivers from the ltmodem project, I used
ltmodem-2.6.8-alk6, but ltserial does not load, modprobe complaining
"No such device".
At any rate, I have tried damn near everything, but Linux does not even
see this modem, lspci nor pnpdump detects anything - but I have
verified it works in Windoze.
There are some related documents on the web about this, but nothing
specific to my situation (i.e., a 2.4 kernel was used whereas I have
2.6, etc.) - always something that is just enough to make it NOT apply
to my system, ARRG!
So, I may have to accept defeat here unless someone can offer some
wisdom, which I hope is the case. Anyone have any advice about this?
Thanks for any help,
-Mike

ponga wrote:
> Hello all, I have been victorious in every aspect of setting up Linux
> on this notebook, except this damned modem. News is my last ditch
> effort, I certainly hope someone here can help me.
> I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 notebook (yup, pretty old); the modem
> identifies itself as a "Toshiba Internal V.90 modem" under Windoze with
> the "LT" driver.
> I have searched and scoured the 'net - and looked at nearly every page
> related to this device, but can find nothing to get it working. The
> closest I got was drivers from the ltmodem project, I used
> ltmodem-2.6.8-alk6, but ltserial does not load, modprobe complaining
> "No such device".
> At any rate, I have tried damn near everything, but Linux does not even
> see this modem, lspci nor pnpdump detects anything - but I have
> verified it works in Windoze.
> There are some related documents on the web about this, but nothing
> specific to my situation (i.e., a 2.4 kernel was used whereas I have
> 2.6, etc.) - always something that is just enough to make it NOT apply
> to my system, ARRG!
> So, I may have to accept defeat here unless someone can offer some
> wisdom, which I hope is the case. Anyone have any advice about this?
> Thanks for any help,
> -Mike

Mike, my post from Jan 4 may entail the solution:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....23842d01b0d8/#

(as i said then, the ltmodem package has apparently branched off for
later kernels, and has been renamed to "martian" or "martian_dev".
Also, BTW, since that post, i have successfully run a second
Lucent/Agere winmodem, at a nice, full speed)

Andrew

>
> Mike, my post from Jan 4 may entail the solution:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp....23842d01b0d8/#
>
> (as i said then, the ltmodem package has apparently branched off for
> later kernels, and has been renamed to "martian" or "martian_dev".
> Also, BTW, since that post, i have successfully run a second
> Lucent/Agere winmodem, at a nice, full speed)
>
> Andrew

Huh! I have not tried that driver (I've tried every other driver, it
seems) so I will try that one and let you know! I hope it works, I
don't really use the modem at all, but it's the principle of the matter
- getting Linux 100% working on this machine.
Btw, is that modem you describe, is it PCI or ISA? Because NOTHING
shows up under `lspci` nor `isapnp` for me, though I know the modem is
there, and there should be no resource conflict...

Thanks,
-Mike

> Mike, my post from Jan 4 may entail the solution:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp....23842d01b0d8/#
>
> (as i said then, the ltmodem package has apparently branched off for
> later kernels, and has been renamed to "martian" or "martian_dev".
> Also, BTW, since that post, i have successfully run a second
> Lucent/Agere winmodem, at a nice, full speed)
>
> Andrew

Nope. I get this trying to load martian_modem

martian: error: open: No such file or directory
martian: info: Mars DSP164x device is not detected

GOT IT!
Specs: Toshiba Tecra 8000 notebook
Modem: "Toshiba Internal V.90 Modem"
This is an LT (Lucent, Luna or Apollo) Winmodem. I used this driver
ltmodem-8.31a10 from here:
<http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/heby/ltmodem/>
I'm running 2.6.8, but this driver (initially) appears to work.
Anyway, my problem was, this is an ISA modem, non-PNP, therefore
pnpdump nor lspci were of any help. After compiling the above modules,
I had to insert with these parameters (which my be different for you)

options lt_modem Forced=4,0x130,0x3E8,0

lt_serial and lt_modem both load. I fired up minicom and got an AT
response, BAM! (only took me a week :/ )

Enjoy,
-Mike

ponga wrote:
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ponga wrote:
> GOT IT!
> Specs: Toshiba Tecra 8000 notebook
> Modem: "Toshiba Internal V.90 Modem"
> This is an LT (Lucent, Luna or Apollo) Winmodem. I used this driver
> ltmodem-8.31a10 from here:
> <http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/heby/ltmodem/>
> I'm running 2.6.8, but this driver (initially) appears to work.
> Anyway, my problem was, this is an ISA modem, non-PNP, therefore
> pnpdump nor lspci were of any help. After compiling the above modules,
> I had to insert with these parameters (which my be different for you)
>
> options lt_modem Forced=4,0x130,0x3E8,0
>
> lt_serial and lt_modem both load. I fired up minicom and got an AT
> response, BAM! (only took me a week :/ )
>

Great! Just to address your earlier question about the martian driver -
the website says it's for a *PCI* (Lucent/Agere) winmodem series (Mars
DSP164x, in particular);
thus, i'm assuming it's not for ISA modems then. I browsed the source
and found "include/config/isa.h" therein, but, most likely, that is not
an indication to the contrary. (?)

(Also, FWIW, it wasn't accurate on my part to characterize it as a
"branch" of the ltmodem development -- it drives a particular subset of
L/A chips).

thanks
Andrew