Actiontec Modem Activating.

From: Jugal Trivedi (jugaltrivedi)
Date: 08/28/03 

Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:19:16 -0500

Hello,

    I have an Actiontec PCI Lite v.92 modem and from what I understand
Actiontec is one of the few winmodem manufacturers that 'supports' linux. I
have RH9 installed and from the hardware probing it looks like RH picked up
the modem. Unfortunately, when I try the Network Configuration tool it
probes for a modem and says it has not found any and selects a generic
modem. I found some instructions online and I did " cat /proc/pci " and the
contents of the file are:

PCI devices found:
  Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
    Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 530 Host (rev 2).
      Master Capable. Latency=32.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x50000000 [0x5fffffff].
  Bus 0, device 0, function 1:
    IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 208).
      Master Capable. Latency=128.
      I/O at 0x2040 [0x204f].
  Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
    ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 177).
  Bus 0, device 1, function 1:
    Class ff00: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] ACPI (rev 0).
  Bus 0, device 1, function 2:
    USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 17).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable. Latency=64. Max Lat=80.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40100000 [0x40100fff].
  Bus 0, device 2, function 0:
    PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP (rev 0).
      Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12.
  Bus 0, device 5, function 0:
    Modem: PCTel Inc HSP MicroModem 56 (rev 2).
      IRQ 10.
      I/O at 0x2080 [0x20bf].
  Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
    Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive
(rev 1).
      IRQ 5.
      Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=24.
      I/O at 0x2000 [0x203f].
      I/O at 0x2050 [0x205f].
      I/O at 0x2060 [0x206f].
      I/O at 0x2070 [0x2073].
      I/O at 0x2074 [0x2077].
  Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
    VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 6306 3D-AGP
(rev 162).
      Master Capable. Latency=66. Min Gnt=2.
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40800000 [0x40ffffff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40000000 [0x4000ffff].
      I/O at 0x1000 [0x107f].

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It says that the modem is:

  Bus 0, device 5, function 0:
    Modem: PCTel Inc HSP MicroModem 56 (rev 2).
      IRQ 10.
      I/O at 0x2080 [0x20bf].

then, as root, I typed in:

setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0x2080 spd_vhi skip_test auto_irq autoconfig
[Enter]

a message came up saying something, something "engaged"

then I typed in:

setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A

I also then added the two setserial lines to my rc.local file in the rc.d
directory.

I restarted the system and went into Gnome and back to the Network
Configuration Panel. It still picked up the generic modem but atleast this
time I was able to "Activate" the connection. Too bad it didn't dial
anywhere. I double checked the number, the DNS numbers, and everything. I
selected /dev as ttyS3 and the slected "None" where it said, "Hardware"
"Controller" or whatever.....

On a side note, under Windows 98 the modem is hooked up to COM 2

So now after all this, what do I do to connect to the Internet? It said the
connection was "Active" and I deactivated it too. Can anyone help me out as
to what steps I need to take to connect? I did a search on RH9 and I'm
still looking for the answer..... TIA

JT

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