Intel 536EP modem & Mandriva SE- will it work?
 

Hi all,

Is there any chance of getting an Intel 536 EP modem working under Linux?
(Mandriva 2005 'special edition'- 10.2 I beleive).

I have noted a previous thread on this- but it looks like the user had troubles
like me and installed a different modem?
(link cut by LQ...)


Looking at the intel site, the modem is listed as 'supporting Linux'- but does that actually mean much -other than it hopefully isn't a winmodem.
(Sorry- link nailed again! I have done my homework though...)

The Mandriva System/ networking config tools goes through the screens then announces
'Configuration failed- please re-configure' (great, thanks!).


The following is a broggle round the system, using system tools (KPPP) and some command line stuff (some of which doen't seem to work on my system- setserial for example).

If anyone can throw any light on this I would be most gratefull

Cheers, Jon.

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$ lspci -v
...
00:0f.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 536EP Data Fax Modem
Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1000
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at f4400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=4M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
...
(So its on IRQ10)


$ ls ttyS* -l
<Cut..>
crw-rw---- 1 jonathan uucp 4, 64 Jan 21 13:24 ttyS0
crw-rw---- 1 jonathan uucp 4, 65 Jan 21 13:24 ttyS1
crw-rw---- 1 jonathan uucp 4, 66 Jan 21 13:24 ttyS2
crw-rw---- 1 jonathan uucp 4, 67 Jan 21 13:24 ttyS3
crw-rw---- 1 jonathan uucp 4, 68 Jan 21 13:24 ttyS4
crw-rw---- 1 jonathan uucp 4, 69 Jan 21 13:24 ttyS5
crw-rw---- 1 jonathan uucp 4, 70 Jan 21 13:24 ttyS6
crw-rw---- 1 jonathan uucp 4, 71 Jan 21 13:24 ttyS7

$ ls modem -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jan 21 13:24 modem -> ttyS4

$ setserial
bash: setserial: command not found

$ mincom
bash: mincom: command not found

$ man mincom
No manual entry for mincom

Looking next within KPPP;

Modem Edit Config-> Device -> setting the device to /dev/ttyS0 through 4,
or in fact anything much, then doing a Modem QUery Modem shows looking
for modem/ modem OK, then stepping through ATI comms, then a totally
empty dia box "Modem Query results".

Mini-terminal does Init/ Ready, but then I cannot enter anything in
the window (ATZ or ATDT etc)- all I can do is a reset modem.

Hello!

I have used an Intel 536 EP modem about half a year under Linux with an 2.6.x kernel [Fedora and CentOS].

You have to download this driver for a 2.6.x kernel:
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/pack...-2.56.76.0.tgz

Then you install it with this:
Install instructions you can find in the readme.txt file after you uncompress the package.
Always install it as root [su -]

Good luck!
Boby