[hsflinux] Re: kppp reporting 'unable to open modem'

[Guerreiro da Luz]

On 12/13/05, Linuxant support (Jonathan) <support at linuxant.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the messages found in your 'dmesg' are generated when the HSF modem
> driver modules are inserted into the kernel and they are not affected by
> the dialing program used.
>
> To try to tack down the problem with 'kppp' you could try to use an
> utility such as 'strace' to see what system calls are called by 'kppp'
> and compare the trace with a working dialing software to see what is the
> exact source of the problem. Alternatively, you could build 'kppp' from
> sources with possibility more debugging output which might help to track
> down this problem.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Jonathan
> Technical specialist / Linuxant
> www.linuxant.com
> support at linuxant.com
>

Jonathan,

Thanks for hints.  I was able to find analyzing kppp source that the
problem occurs when calling tcsendbreak() syscall - it should send a
stream of zeroes to modem for 0.5s or so and there is a timeout in
kppp source around it to check if it will hang after 2s and report
above error if it does.  So this is what happens - tcsendbreak() for
some reason hangs if minicom or wvdial not launched before kppp.  Now,
even if I code around this, compiling kppp from source is real pain
(whole kdenetwork package should be compiled actually), thus I think
I'm rather going to spend some more time to find workaround.  Since I
have my license delivered now - are more questions regarding above
appropriate to Linuxant support e-mail address or your position would
be that since driver is definitely working (as confirmed by minicom
and wvdial) then these kppp woes are not your business?

Regards.


>
> Guerrero da Luz wrote:
> > On 12/12/05, Guerreiro da Luz <g.da.luz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Got Thinkpad R51 machine with Conexant HSF softmodem
> >>(PCI-8086:24c6-1014:055a).  So I downloaded free version of Linuxant
> >>HSF modem driver and installed it along with my kernel (stock
> >>2.6.14.3, my machine is Slackware 10.2 btw).  Tried driver with
> >>minicom and it works great, so I'm certainly going to order full
> >>license.  However, I do have small problem with kppp dialer - it keeps
> >>reporting 'unable to open modem' when I try dialing.  I do have
> >>/dev/modem link to /dev/ttySHSF0.  I tried to use wvdial and it works
> >>fine.  I tried set to modem initialization sequence in kppp to same
> >>sequence minicom or wvdial are using, but same error still there.
> >>Weirdest of all, if I launch either minicom or wvdial once and then
> >>exit and try kppp again, it works perfectly.  So it's not that big
> >>deal, but still I would like to have it working without this "hack" -
> >>maybe someone on this list could offer some advice regarding how to
> >>track what minicom or wvdial are doing that kppp is not or anything
> >>else to try?
> >>
> >>Thanks.
> >>
> >
> >
> > After sending previous message, I realized two previous threads on
> > this list had also to do with kppp problems on Thinkpads (it would be
> > really good to have search capability available directly on the Web
> > for this list) and I found some hints.  I tried to run "hsfconfig
> > --dumpdiag" before and after launching minicom (ie. before and after
> > being able to use kppp properly) and here is the difference (what
> > follows appears only after launching minicom):
> >
> > < usbcore: deregistering driver hsfusbcd2
> > < PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1f.6
> > < PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.3
> > < PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.5
> > < PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.6 to 64
> > < ttySHSF0 at I/O 0x2400 (irq = 11) is a Conexant HSF softmodem (PCI-8086:24c6-1
> > 014:055a)
> > < usbcore: registered new driver hsfusbcd2
> >
> > So I guess what kppp is missing is some kind of executing setserial
> > equivalent for HSF modem, in order to set IRQ and I/O port; but HSF
> > modems FAQ states it is not possible to use setserial on
> > /dev/ttySHSF*.  Any hint?
> >
> > Thanks.
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