modem help

Forum: Networking
Topic: modem help
started by: krapta

Posted by krapta on Feb. 20 2004,01:34

i'm having problems w/modem setup. dialup script doesn't find modem.

cat /proc/pci returns; Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
Communication controller: TOPIC SEMICONDUCTOR Corp TP560 Data/Fax/Voice 56k modem (rev 0).
IRQ 11
I/O at 0xd000 [0xd007]

windows has this modem on com5

I've tried ./MAKEDEV ttyS4.... but microcom hangs when trying to communicate.

does DSL have setserial?

And suggestions??

Posted by roadie on Feb. 20 2004,06:07

Is that a Winmodem? I think the dialup scripts are for hardware modems, if so they won't work for a Winmodem.
And a driver will have to be loaded before you can do anything with it and in the case of a Winmodem the driver has to be built.

Any driver source I've used sets up the node for the modem and also sets up to load the mods when ppp is called.

roadie

Posted by krapta on Feb. 20 2004,19:33

One website said my modem was not a winmodem and is ok for Linux, but i'm not so sure- since the it was after a long trail of numbers and manufactures. So following is some more info;

EEPROM tuples:
* “151f” - Vendor ID
* “0000” - Device ID
* “0000” - SubVendor ID
* “151f” - SubDevice ID
* “00” - Revision ID

Showing 3 of 3 from 450
HW ID MFC Chipset Page Type
0000 Topic 560i V.90 DF PCI Controller PCI2 (Device ID)
0000 Topic 560i V.90 DFV PCI Controller PCI2 (Device ID)
0000 Topic 560i V.90 DFV PCI Controller PCI4 (SubDevice ID)

name Mfc
IC Plus Semiconductor Corp. Topic

Please help this incompetent newbie :)

krapta

Posted by roadie on Feb. 20 2004,22:48

You might be in luck, what I've seen say's it's a hardware modem.
Check out < http://www.modem-help.co.uk/chips/top560.html >

Apparently there are drivers for it.

roadie

Posted by krapta on Feb. 21 2004,00:04

i tried somthing similiar wut the 'setserial' command wasn't found. Is this available in DSL?

Posted by roadie on Feb. 21 2004,01:45

I don't see setserial in DSL, I've never had to use it for my modems.
Do you have the drivers for the modem?
If you do then maybe try this
mknod /dev/ttyS4 c 62 64
chmod a+rw /dev/ttyS4
ln -s /dev/ttyS4 /dev/modem
That will link the modem to /dev/ttyS4, I notice in my DSL there is no /dev/ttyS4
Then insmod the drivers and it should pick up the modem.

roadie

Posted by Modrak on Feb. 22 2004,19:31

LAMEEER...it's winmodem !!!

Posted by roadie on Feb. 22 2004,19:58

Modrak, whether or not it's a Winmodem really is'nt the point.
If you had checked the link I posted, you would have seen that there are drivers listed for the Topic 560i and they list them for Linux as well as Windows.

Another site shows it as having a hardware chipset.
Either way, the idea here is to get the thing going if it's possible.

roadie

Posted by lordnikon on Mar. 02 2004,09:22

ok see im having a simalor problem with dial up internet access in dsl my problem is that every time i try to dial i get an acceess denied message what do i need to stop this problem oh and if it hel-ps ne i have a lucent winmodem or will it work with a winmodem?
do i need a driver or somthing if so where can i get one and hw do i use the driver because rightnow im only using dsl to hack my winblows=windows partition "witch isnt working out very well at all i cant run nething in there unless you think i could run wine and then start running stuff from my win partyition within winei just really need some help to fix my problem so if neone knows how to fixmy problem emailme at digitalman01@bellsouth.net thanx for reading and i hope i didnt confuse yall ne more than this has confused me

Posted by Schizod on July 12 2005,01:54

I know that modem is driverless. All it needs is setserial to configure it, like isapnp. No idea how to get it done in DSL though