Re: Modem Install Problems

From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb_at_oboe.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 09/02/03 

Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:25:35 +0200

dj.jr@fnmail.com 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

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