Bug 250806 - smolt reports wrong driver for 56k winmodem
Summary: smolt reports wrong driver for 56k winmodem
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: smolt
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike McGrath
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-08-03 18:24 UTC by Antonio A. Olivares
Modified: 2008-06-17 02:05 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-06-17 02:05:37 UTC
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The file generated by scanModem that gives more information about Modem (4.71 KB, text/plain)
2007-08-03 18:24 UTC, Antonio A. Olivares
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Description Antonio A. Olivares 2007-08-03 18:24:46 UTC
Description of problem:

smolt gnerates serial driver as the driver for Smartlink 56K Modem.  This is
incorrect information as the driver(s) used are from Smartlink Section of
LinModem Resource Page

serial  MODEM  pci  Smart Link Ltd.  SmartLink SmartPCI562 56K Modem  Smart Link
Ltd.

Fedora 6 smolt profile 
http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=4c1689bf-dca4-41d9-93cb-c0b226c4f654

and Fedora 7 smolt profile
http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=ab3e390d-6c07-4e80-ab82-e33899913db3

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[olivares@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa smolt
smolt-0.9.8.1-1.fc7
and the other one in Fedora 6 which I will put here later.  Im doing this from
Fedora 7 which also has same mistake. 

Part of the reason that smolt can say that the serial driver is the one is
because of the following issue:
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/slmodem-serial.html

Since then this problem has not gone away.  ungrab-winmodem is the quick fix for
this.  

How reproducible:
Run mmolt and send profile 

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  run smolt 
2.  select yes on smolt prompt
3.  open your smolt profile on web browser and check driver for Modem 
  
Actual results:

the two drivers

http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/slmodem-2.9.11-20070505.tar.gz
and
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/ungrab-winmodem-20070505.tar.gz

support the Smartlink 56K winmodem 


Expected results:


Additional info:

For a better explanation of what is going on please look at 
http://www.geocities.com/olivares14031/26221-27fc7-slmodemd.html
and at the homepage 

http://www.geocities.com/olivares14031/

for more slmodemd examples and howto's for better infomation.

lspci for modem returns
00:0a.0 Modem: Smart Link Ltd. SmartLink SmartPCI562 56K Modem (rev 04)

Should you need more information, I will be glad to try to help out.

Thanks,

Antonio

Comment 1 Antonio A. Olivares 2007-08-03 18:24:47 UTC
Created attachment 160643 [details]
The file generated by scanModem that gives more information about Modem

Comment 2 Mike McGrath 2007-08-03 18:31:17 UTC
Thanks for this, I have a strong feeling this is a design flaw in the way I
setup how devices are submitted.  we'll have to come up with a fix for it.

Comment 3 Antonio A. Olivares 2007-08-04 00:46:34 UTC
Mike, 

smolt gets the modem correctly on the other machine running Fedora 7

http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=b789470a-11cc-4097-acd7-c022ad437d6b

Driver   Modem  Type  ...                .....        ......
Unknown  OTHER  pci  Agere Systems  LT WinModem  Agere Systems

lspci reports it as 
00:0a.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems LT WinModem (rev 02)

So the problem might not be with smolt, but with the serial driver capturing the
modem and not releasing it.  Just a thought.  

Do I send in the Fedora 6 information?  

Please let me know if you need something.  

Thanks,

Antonio 

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 13:51:39 UTC
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