IBM 600E internel modem debian sarge
 

Hi,

I installed the Debian Sarge on my laptop IBM-Thinkpad-600E. But the internel modem is not working. I tried the debian package "mwavem" and failed. I did everying following the "ACP-modem-mini-how-to" and failed.

When I execute:
#modprobe mwave
I have:
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/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686/kernel/drivers/char/mwave/mwave.o: init_module: Input/output error
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686/kernel/drivers/char/mwave/mwave.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686/kernel/drivers/char/mwave/mwave.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686/kernel/drivers/char/mwave/mwave.o: insmod mwave failed
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OR when I execute:
#apt-get install mwavem
I have:
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reding Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package mwave
spin:/home/zyu# apt-get install mwavem
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Suggested packages:
apmd devfsd
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mwavem
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 921kB of archives.
After unpacking 2658kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/non-free mwavem 1.0.4-1 [921kB]
Fetched 921kB in 7s (116kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package mwavem.
(Reading database ... 25422 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mwavem (from .../mwavem_1.0.4-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up mwavem (1.0.4-1) ...
Created device node /dev/mwave .
/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686/kernel/drivers/char/mwave/mwave.o: init_module: Input/output error
/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686/kernel/drivers/char/mwave/mwave.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686/kernel/drivers/char/mwave/mwave.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686/kernel/drivers/char/mwave/mwave.o: insmod mwave failed
Starting Mwave modem: (module mwave did not load) (daemon failed to start).
invoke-rc.d: initscript mwavem, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mwavem (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
mwavem
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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I think the problem is the same. the mwave module can't be installed. I tried every evalue of IO and IRQ, but it is still not working. It has taken me more than one week on it. Very frustrating. Anyone has suggestion?

Anyone can help?

Perhaps your modem is not supported by that particular mwave module?

It should be supported. I guess the reason might be all the irqs and addresses the "mwave" module uses are used by other hardwares. I tried to find the table of used irqs and addresses, but haven't figured out yet. Anyone knows how to check out that?