Hello,

I have purchased a compaq presario 2200 which Suse/Yast tells me requires a smartlink modem to make the internal modem active.

I have installed the following smartlink driver:smartlink-softmodem-2.9.10-3.2.i586.rpm


When dialing out the following occurs:
SuSE Meta pppd (smpppd-ifcfg), Version 1.16 on linux.
Status is: disconnected
trying to connect to smpppd
connect to smpppd
Status is: disconnected
Status is: connecting
pppd[0]: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded.
pppd[0]: tcgetattr: No such file or directory (line 926)
Status is: disconnected
pppd[0] died: Fatal pppd error (exit code 1)

The below is the information I have obtained from the hardware config file in relation to the modem:

<4>slamr: unsupported module, tainting kernel.
<4>slamr: module license 'Smart Link Ltd.' taints kernel.
<6>slamr: SmartLink AMRMO modem.
<6>slamr: probe 8086:24c6 ICH4 card...
<7>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.6 to 64
<4>slamr: mc97 codec is CXT30
<6>slamr: slamr0 is ICH4 card.

26: PCI 1f.6: 10204 LinModem
[Created at pci.244]
Unique ID: ORVU.6MHW8PbjCn4
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.6
SysFS BusID: 0000:00:1f.6
Hardware Class: modem
Model: "Hewlett-Packard Company 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Modem Controller"
Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
Device: pci 0x24c6 "82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Modem Controller"
SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company"
SubDevice: pci 0x3084
Revision: 0x03
Driver: "slamr"
Device File: /dev/ttySL0
Device Number: char 212:0
I/O Ports: 0x2400-0x24ff (rw)
I/O Ports: 0x2000-0x207f (rw)
IRQ: 5 (1308 events)
Requires: smartlink-softmodem
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: slamr is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe slamr"
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown


Can somebody help me with pppd[0] died: Fatal pppd error (exit code 1)?

I have a "Hewlett-Packard Company Modem" although it is a different version and I had to do some different stuff. Anyway maybe this'll help.

do

ls -l /dev/modem

if /dev/modem isn't pointin to /dev/ttySL0 then rm /dev/modem and ln -s /dev/ttySL0 /dev/modem

Going into control center and yast modules network devices and add a new modem, don't try and configure the one that is already there, well, at least it wouldn't work for me, using /dev/modem as your modem device.

As root run the slmodemd

/usr/sbin/slmodemd --country=<Whatever country you're in > <whatever device your modem is>
e.g
/usr/sbin/slmodemd --country=UK /dev/slamr0

for countrylist you an do /usr/sbin/slmodemd --countrylist and you can use output of dmesg to see whatever device slamr is using.

Try connecting again with the new modem settings you've just made. It can take a while but you can watch the output of what's happening by using the "View Log" option of the KInternet tool. Maybe help you a little, but as I said, my modem is slightly different.

thanks mate,

tried you solutions in the past. These things can be a real pain.

If you cant get it going maybe try using wvdial. Its the only one that I can get to work on my thinkpad. (must admit, once I got it to work, I havent looked into getting anything else to work.) Have a look at man pppd for the error codes.