Re: MWave modem on Vaio R505EC?

Just out of interest I tried this on my toshiba portege 4000 and get the
same error, one day when I get around to rebooting I might have a
fiddle.

Cheers,

Mark

On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 10:46, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > I have a Vaio R505EC and I'm trying to get the built-in mwave modem to
> > work with the mwave loadable module port.  The port claims to be for the
> > Thinkpads in particular, but I suppose it should work with any mwave
> > modem.
> 
> > When the module is loaded, dmesg tells me this:
> > 
> > mwave0: <mwave> on isa0
> > smapi::smapi_init, ERROR invalid usSmapiID
> > tp3780i::Initialize SMAPI is not available on this machine
> > Mwave Modem, ERROR cannot Initialize DSP error 5
> > device_probe_and_attach: mwave0 attach returned 5
> > sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> 
> Any ideas?
> Ben,
> 
> Wow! I never realized that Sony (or anybody other than IBM) used that
> DSP. 
> 
> This looks like a BIOS problem. The BIOS must be configured to have
> the DSP and the serial device configured. On the IBM, this means that
> the internal modem requires that two IRQs (normally 3 and 10) be
> assigned in BIOS. The first is the DSP, normally at 10, and the second
> is the aerial pseudo-device, normally 3. The mWave driver attempts to
> get the IRQ values from BIOS, so other values can probably be used,
> but they MUST be assigned in BIOS as that s the only way the deriver
> can find them. There is no mechanism to specify them.
> 
> Make sure that you are not using either IRQ for some other device in
> either FreeBSD or in BIOS.
> 
> Let me know if you can get it to work.
> 
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: [email protected]			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
> 
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