Re: modem help

Brad,

You could just do a 32 bin Ubuntu installation on your same hardware platform.
Unless you are doing heavy graphics/math, the performance of 32 bit
and 64 bit installations is similar

MarvS

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Antonio Olivares
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Brad,
>
> scanModem reports that the modem you have could be supported but under
> 32 bit Linux and you have 64 bit linux installed:
>
> `` There is no agrsm software support for x86_64 systems, through the
> modem may be
>  supported on Intel/i386 installations, which do more slowly service
> x86_64 processors.
> ''
>
>
> Predictive  diagnostics for card in bus 00:1b.0:
>        Modem chipset  detected on
> NAME="Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I "
> CLASS=0403
> PCIDEV=8086:293e
> SUBSYS=103c:3624
> IRQ=49
> HDA2=00:1b.0
> SOFT=8086:293e.HDA
> HDA2=01:00.1
> SOFT=8086:293e.HDA
> HDAchipVendorID=11c1
> CHIP=0x11c11040
> IDENT=agrsm
> Driver=agrsm
> package=agrsm-11c11040
>
>  For candidate modem in:  00:1b.0
>   0403 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I
>      Primary device ID:  8086:293e
>    Subsystem PCI_id  103c:3624
>    Softmodem codec or chipset from diagnostics: 0x11c11040
>                               from    Archives:
>                        The HDA card softmodem chip is 0x11c11040
>
>
> Support type needed or chipset: agrsm
>
>
>
>  There is no agrsm software support for x86_64 systems, through the
> modem may be
>  supported on Intel/i386 installations, which do more slowly servce
> x86_64 processors.
>
>
> The AgereSystems/LSI agrsm code supports compiling of a agrmodem +
> agrserial driver pair.
> There are a few different chipsets which use this driver pair, but
> they use different code resources:
> Chipsets                        KV*     PackageNames (most current as of November 2009)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 11c1:048c and 11c1:048f
> 2.6.29  agrsm048pci-2.1.60_20100108_i386.deb or
> agrsm048pci-2.1.60_20100108.tar.gz
> 11c1:0620                       2.6.31
> agrsm06pci-2.1.80_20100106_i386.deb or
> agrsm06pci-2.1.80~20100106.tar.gz !!
> 11c11040 (on HDA audio cards)   2.6.31
> agrsm-11c11040_20091225_i386.deb or
> agrsm-11c11040-2.1.80~20091225.tar.bz2  !!
>   All available at:
> http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/11c11040/
> Additionally there are;
> automation & testing                    agrsm-tools_0.0.1_all.deb or
> agrsm-tools-0.0.1-2.noarch.rpm
> General background                      agrsm_howto.txt
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> * KV == latest kernel release with a reported success
> !! Latest update with major credit to  Nikolay Zhuravlev
>   But see conflict issue:
> http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-nineth/msg02753.html
>   For the 11c11040 chip with kernels 2.6.31 and later a change in a
> modules loading settingmay be necessary.
>   Within the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf  (or equivalent for
> your Distro), change the phrase:
>      options snd-hda-intel power_save=10
>   to:
>      options snd-hda-intel power_save=0
>   or the agrsm drivers will not function. For Ubuntu related systems
> this can be done with:
>   $ sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
>
> Report from  Bjorn Wielens:
> Please note- trying to load the modules on a OpenSuSE 11.2 system gives
>  an error about the module_version symbol. Using:
> # modprobe --force agrmodem
> # modprobe --force agrserial
> is necessary to load the drivers, and does not appear to cause ill effects.
>
>
> All of the above packages are dkms competent.  This means that if your
> Linux distros dkms package
> is previously installed, if provides for future updates matching
> forthcoming kernels.
>
> -------------- end Agere Systems section -------------------
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
>
> On 2/21/11, Brad Whitmoyer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello, I'm having problem getting my modem to be recognized. I have an
>> Agree Systems HDA modem. I'm using Ubuntu 10.10, could somebody please
>> help?
>>
>>
>