I have been trying for nine months now to get online with linux certified lc2210d laptop. Supposed to work "out of the box and get 3 months help and they just blew me off saying "take a tutorial" I have since read how difficult making these connections can be and in fact have been deprecated. (see linux administration handbook .325 second edition.)
Can someone please help? Some folks have answered specific questions with ideas but when I write back there is no follow up. I have given up on wvdial. Mini com won't work and when I try to use the desktop wizard I get "error 8" I don't know if I have fedora core 3 or 4 and i'm very pissed off at the way I was treated by certified.

Not knowing the modem it contains go here and get the scanmodem tool. It should tell you what you need to use with it. There are many docs there and in the scanmodem tool package that helps to install the proper module or driver. http://www.linmodems.org/

Posting the output of /sbin/lspci will show the hardware it sees.
Then the output of scanmodem results if unclear as to what it means.

Not an expert in this area, but the above info should at least get help from others as well.

Brian

I ran Aplay -L and got this output:
Card 0: I82801DBICH [Intel 82801DB-ICHA], device 0: Intel ICH
[Intel 82801-ICHA]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0:subdevice #0
Card 1:Modem [Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem],device 0: Intel ICH Modem
[Intel 82801DB -ICHA- IEC958
So the paperwork I recieved is correct I have Intel ICH slmodem,snd-intel8x0m

This is a softmodem and it says "Systems with ICH audio cards should use the snd-intel8x0m driver. All seems to be correct.
The default modem device is /dev/ttySLO which is usually linked to /dev/modem. My gut feeling is this link is not set up properly. Could you help troubleshoot this? If you follow through with even one e-mail a week I would be thrilled!!! thanks
p.s. Certified had me run a bunch of wvdial stuff and I may have not made this link correctly. Also I am trying not to dial out as root.

Been a while since messing with winmodems so I pulled the following info from my setup log file I used to keep track of what is installed, When removed, When updated and so forth.

Ok have you installed the latest slmodem-***** file?

How I set it up.
I extracted the file and went to the modem directory and ran the following commands which are in the slmodem install docs.
make SUPPORT_ALSA=1

Then I copied the two files built in the modem directory.
Copied modem_test and slmodemd to the /usr/bin directory.
Then set the permissions on them as this.
/sbin/chmod 777 /usr/bin/modem_test
/sbin/chmod 777 /usr/bin/slmodemd
/sbin/chmod +s /usr/bin/modem_test
/sbin/chmod +s /usr/bin/slmodemd

Now I added this line to /etc/rc.local
/sbin/modprobe snd-intel8x0m

Now to start it up.
edit: Exclude this line.................
As root run the command ' /sbin/snd-intel8x0m '
edit: Exclude this line.......................

Then run the command ' /usr/bin/slmodemd -alsa '

Now it will not return a cartiage return. The command remains open and running. So goto your pppd gui tool and setup a connection. Setup the modem using /dev/ttySL0. Then goto the Query the modem and see if it responds.

Thats is what I have written down but been a couple of years since using it.

Brian

Thankyou for following up; your the first person who's done this!
I am a Noob so the first thing I did was look up "extract" in the 1/2 dozen linux books I have. (I'm running fedora core 4 by the way kernal 2.6.11.27....)Only two references! One uses extract with the restore command the other mentions using "gunzip" to extract files. I could use some advice here.
Also it says in paperwork "For the modem to work an alsa sound card will need to be loaded. My cd player and sound work fine yet in all the attemps I've made with minicom and wvdial etc. I never hear any noise. Is there a seperate sound card that has to be loaded?

Post the output of lsmod. Let's see what modules are actually loaded.

This modem is partial seen as a sound dev. That is why you load the snd-intelm8x0 module with the modprobe command. If it loads then it is built as a module for the kernel. Run the modprobe command as root and tell me if it loads. If it errors then you need to compile it for your current running kernel.

If it loads then you can use the command ' alsamixer -c1 ' where -c0 is your first sound card. It will display a bars.

Lets make sure it is seen before going further.

As far as extracting I have gotten used to right clicking and select extract here under the gui KDE. But command is tar that you are after. Current not as my desktop and not at my notes. Search here or google for use of tar with the extension of the file you downloaded to see the exact options to use to extract it.

Brian

You can just type man tar to see all of the options for the tar command.

Here is the output Brian. below I will hand type the rest of the directions they sent me. I ran modprobe snd_intel8x0 and didn't get an error so I quess it loaded. But I goofed and didn't run the other one in the list snd_intel8x0m before I shut down. Its in the list so I think we can count on it loading. I quess my next question is what does alsa flag mean?
root@localhost ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
i915 20992 1
drm 77332 2 i915
parport_pc 30916 0
lp 13704 0
parport 45640 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 30468 0
sunrpc 182596 1
pcmcia 29216 2
p4_clockmod 5768 0
dm_mod 68248 0
video 16644 0
container 4736 0
button 6928 0
battery 9860 0
ac 5124 0
md5 4480 1
ipv6 304064 8
yenta_socket 23688 1
rsrc_nonstatic 12032 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 53172 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
intel_agp 23836 1
agpgart 35904 3 drm,intel_agp
i2c_i801 9228 0
i2c_core 24576 1 i2c_i801
snd_intel8x0m 20804 4
snd_intel8x0 37696 2
snd_ac97_codec 82040 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 58912 0
snd_mixer_oss 22144 3 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 116232 6 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
"A user space daemon,slmodemd will create the modem device used by dialing applications. The default modem device is /dev/tty/SLO, which is usually linked to /dev/modem. The daemon will need to start up configured with the corret country code and the alsa flag. A startup script, /etc/init.d/slmodemd, is provided."
"Once the device is set up, you can use wvdial to dial out. To use wvdial, first run "wvdialconf/etc/wvdial.conf". Edit /etc/wvdial.conf with your providers number, username and password, then run "wvdial -f /etc/wvdial.conf"
I've set up an account and it made its own group and I set permissions and I made a file "mywvdial.conf" but I don't know if I did everything right so we should probably start from scratch. I can't thank everyone enough, its great to finally be doing this!
snd_timer 37764 1 snd_pcm
snd 65636 13 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 12512 3 snd
snd_page_alloc 10756 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
prism54 63240 0
8139too 32512 0
mii 5760 1 8139too
ath_pci 67872 0
ath_rate_onoe 9736 1 ath_pci
wlan 123356 2 ath_pci,ath_rate_onoe
ath_hal 134096 1 ath_pci
ext3 149640 4
jbd 97432 1 ext3
sd_mod 20480 0
sbp2 27528 0
usb_storage 75968 0
scsi_mod 150472 3 sd_mod,sbp2,usb_storage
ehci_hcd 44424 0
uhci_hcd 36112 0
ohci_hcd 28168 0
ohci1394 41732 0
ieee1394 319704 2 sbp2,ohci1394

I made a mistake in that post I did I noted it to be incorrect for the moment.

Ok you modprobed the snd-intel8x0m module and it loaded.
Now have you run this command ' /usr/bin/slmodemd -alsa '. Now I had place the slmodemd command in /usr/bin. I do not know where you places yours from the source you compiled. Change as needed.

Brian

I'm struggling a bit but here goes: I logged on with the account I want to dial out with and ran echo PATH. Then I keyed in the command 'type slmodemd' and got "slmodemd is /usr/sbin/slmodemd. Well the results of PATH are: /usr/Kerberos/bin: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin: /bin: /usr/x11r6/
bin:/home/joe/bin....so since /usr/sbin/ is not in the list I now want to key in '#PATH= $PATH: /usr/sbin/ ; export PATH'
Would this work? I'm asking before I do it as I see some security stuff and I'm logged on as root and I don't want to screw up now because I smell victory around the corner. Thankyou my friend.

You can run this command here. ' export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin '
To make it permenant place this line in your ~/.bashrc

Brian

Great! So everything looks ready to run out of the box as specified. What next? Look for modem_test to see if its in /usr/sbin or key in '/usr/sbin/slmodem -alsa'
or key in ' alsamixer -Cl ' ??? I'm really out my league now. I can't figure out why if the stuff in /sbin is supposed to load up at boot why wvdial won't work. The salient point in the directions I've shown you is "For the modem to work, an alsa sound driver will need to be loaded. Do you think I should just key in ' modprobe snd_intel8x0m ' and then key in ' /usr/sbin/slmodem -alsa' and then try running wvdial. See when I followed their wvdial directions I thought these were loaded so maybe that's all I need to do!?

Yes, try that. Do the following in a root terminal.
modprobe snd_intel8x0m ( make sure you get no errors )
/usr/sbin/slmodemd -alsa ( This will not return you to a command prompt. Do not close the terminal or anything. )

If you wish to test run the command ' /usr/sbin/modem_test '

Now start your dialer and configure to the /dev/ttySL0 device block. It should be listed in /dev directory.

Brian

Don't know if this tells you anything but I was trying to get minicom to work today figuring maybe it would work with module loaded. No dice. I came across
' dmesg | grep ttys ' in my travels. Hard command to fine info on. I keyed in
man -k dmesg and got - demsg (8) print or control the kernal ring buffer. The reason I'm telling you this is when I try to make a ppp connection I get "error 8"
Regards m