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>7. A few other points that must be noted.</H1
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>7.1. The unofficial PCTel winmodem-Linux compatibility database.</H2
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>There has been a lot of confusion over the <EM
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takes in information from the modem owners, so that newbies can browse and search the database, and find their modems' chipsets. If you have a PCTel modem, then please do submit your modem information
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at <A
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> # for pctel modem
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alias char-major-62 ptserial
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below ptserial pctel
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depmod -a</B
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>In this case, running ppp would automatically load these modules.
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You can also write up some shell-script and put them in your <TT
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The list of country codes with the corresponding country names is listed below.</P
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> Country Name </TH
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>The other options that you may want to use while loading ptserial.o are:</P
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> - irq: Force to using irq #.</P
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>and then the <SPAN
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CLASS="APPLICATION"
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>ptserial.o</SPAN
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></P
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>bash$
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insmod ptserial</B
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></P
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><P
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>While unloading, the sequence is reversed,</P
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>bash$
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rmmod ptserial</B
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></P
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>bash$
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rmmod pctel</B
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></P
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></DIV
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><DIV
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><H2
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><A
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NAME="AEN579"
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></A
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>7.6. Bugs in the pctel-0.9.6 and the 0.8.6 versions.</H2
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><P
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><A
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NAME="BUG"
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></A
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>
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There is a serious bug in the drivers for the kernel 2.4x
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The modem often seems to stop working/hang while dialing out, and you get nothing but a
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beeeeeeeeee... sound from the modem speaker and later, the dialer gives a message <TT
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CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT"
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>No Carrier</TT
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>
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and disconnects.</P
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><P
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>This problem has no real workaround , but sometimes unloading and reloading of the modules work. For that the commands
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will be (assuming that you have the modules in <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/lib/modules/'your kernel version`/misc/ </TT
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>)</P
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>bash$
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rmmod ptserial</B
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></P
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>bash$
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rmmod pctel</B
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></P
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>bash$
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insmod pctel</B
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></P
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>bash$
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insmod ptserial</B
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></P
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><P
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><DIV
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CLASS="NOTE"
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><P
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><TR
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><TD
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WIDTH="25"
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VALIGN="TOP"
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><IMG
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HSPACE="5"
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ALT="Note"></TD
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><TD
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ALIGN="LEFT"
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VALIGN="TOP"
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><P
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>You must exit from your dialer before trying to unload the drivers, otherwise you will get a <TT
|
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CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT"
|
|
>device or resource busy </TT
|
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> error.</P
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></TD
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></TR
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></TABLE
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></DIV
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></P
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><P
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|
>When the problems become too acute, the only solution seems to be rebooting.</P
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><P
|
|
>It has been also noticed that sometimes, this problem is ISP dependent, with the problem surfacing when using a particular
|
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ISP.</P
|
|
></DIV
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><DIV
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CLASS="SECT2"
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><H2
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><A
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NAME="AEN600"
|
|
></A
|
|
>7.7. Directory of the kernel source files</H2
|
|
><P
|
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><A
|
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NAME="KERNELSRC"
|
|
></A
|
|
>
|
|
If you get an error saying <TT
|
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CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT"
|
|
>/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h : no such file or directory</TT
|
|
>,
|
|
look in your /usr/src directory for the kernel source. The default location is <TT
|
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CLASS="FILENAME"
|
|
>/usr/src/linux/ </TT
|
|
> but some distributions may install the files somewhere else.</P
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|
><P
|
|
>If you find that the files are somewhere else, say in the directory, <TT
|
|
CLASS="FILENAME"
|
|
>/usr/src/myspecialsource/ </TT
|
|
>, do not try to move the files, just create a symbolic link with the command </P
|
|
><P
|
|
><B
|
|
CLASS="COMMAND"
|
|
>bash$
|
|
ln -s /usr/src/myspecialdirectory/ /usr/src/linux/</B
|
|
></P
|
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><P
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><DIV
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><P
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><TD
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><IMG
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HSPACE="5"
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ALT="Note"></TD
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><TD
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="TOP"
|
|
><P
|
|
>In case of the PCTel-0.8.6 or newer drivers you can also specify the location of your kernel source by using the option</P
|
|
><P
|
|
><B
|
|
CLASS="COMMAND"
|
|
>bash$
|
|
--with-kernel-includes=your kernel source directory</B
|
|
></P
|
|
><P
|
|
>during running the <SPAN
|
|
CLASS="APPLICATION"
|
|
> configure </SPAN
|
|
> script.</P
|
|
></TD
|
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></TR
|
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></TABLE
|
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></DIV
|
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></P
|
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></DIV
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><DIV
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|
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><H2
|
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|
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><A
|
|
NAME="BIOS"
|
|
></A
|
|
>7.8. PnP BIOS issues</H2
|
|
><P
|
|
>As most computers are designed for M$-Windows operating systems, the BIOS of the computer assumes that you have a what it calls a "PnP OS installed".
|
|
This may cause trouble with these types of modems in GNU/Linux (specially if you have resource conflicts) and so the best bet is to change the option "PnP OS installed" to "No". To do these, you have to perform the following steps:</P
|
|
><P
|
|
>During startup, when you see "Memory Test" messages, CPU information, BIOS information, just press the <B
|
|
CLASS="KEYCAP"
|
|
>DEL</B
|
|
> key (if that does not work, usually one of the Function (Fx) keys work..check your manual).</P
|
|
><P
|
|
>You will be presented with the BIOS configuration menu. Enter the "PNP/PCI Configuration" section and set the option for "PNP OS Installed" to "NO". Save the changes you have made, and then reboot.</P
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><P
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><DIV
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><P
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><TD
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><IMG
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SRC="../images/warning.gif"
|
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|
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ALT="Warning"></TD
|
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><TD
|
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ALIGN="LEFT"
|
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VALIGN="TOP"
|
|
><P
|
|
>This is <EM
|
|
>not</EM
|
|
> applicable to all BIOSs, and you are advised to consult your PC documentation if you have a different kind of BIOS configuration menu.</P
|
|
></TD
|
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></TR
|
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|
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|
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></P
|
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><DIV
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><H2
|
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|
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><A
|
|
NAME="AMR"
|
|
></A
|
|
>7.9. AMR modems</H2
|
|
><P
|
|
>There are certain PCTel chip set based internal modems that go into AMR slots instead of the normal PCI slots. They are
|
|
usually identified as <TT
|
|
CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT"
|
|
> HSP MR </TT
|
|
> by the <B
|
|
CLASS="COMMAND"
|
|
>bash$ lspci </B
|
|
> command. These modems
|
|
are supported by the pctel-0.9.6 drivers only.</P
|
|
></DIV
|
|
><DIV
|
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CLASS="SECT2"
|
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><H2
|
|
CLASS="SECT2"
|
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><A
|
|
NAME="SOUND"
|
|
></A
|
|
>7.10. Possible conflict with sound modules</H2
|
|
><P
|
|
>Recently, there were some posts in the discuss@linmodems.org list that the PCTel modules worked only after the sound modules
|
|
were unloaded with the <B
|
|
CLASS="COMMAND"
|
|
>bash$ rmmod </B
|
|
> command. If you do not get a response from your modem even after the
|
|
pctel.o and ptserial.o modules have been loaded, then you can try unloading the sound modules, and then reloading the PCTel
|
|
modules. However, this problem does not occur if you are using the commercial ($$$) drivers from <A
|
|
HREF="http://www.opensound.com"
|
|
TARGET="_top"
|
|
> www.opensound.com </A
|
|
>.</P
|
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|
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