[ale] Modem identification and connecting

[Boris Borisov]

Maybe it takes over IRQ I/O port. I have a old Toshiba laptop with IR and
modem and does not have issues.

On Sunday, November 10, 2013, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
> Nope, it was completely clean and so was the cardbus socket (the wifi
> card works in both cardbus sockets).  Three hours of google searching
> led me to blacklist the smsc_ircc2 module which woke up the serial ports
> (both the on-board and the modem) and everything started working.
> Somehow that module (used by the IrDA module) causes issues with serial
> ports on many laptops.  I don't know why, that's probably more google
> searching.  I don't need IrDA support (though it would be fun to play
> with since I have several IrDA enabled devices) but it would be nice to
> find out why smsc_ircc2 messes things up.
>
> On 11/10/2013 05:33, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Sounds like the modem is dead or maybe has some crud on the board. Try an
>> electric cleaner spray.
>> On Nov 9, 2013 3:47 PM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm tinkering with a cardbus modem I found in one of my hardware piles
>>> (I'm still missing the actual cable but I know I have it here
>>> somewhere).  Anyway, I'm trying to figure out the best way to see if
>>> it's working (eg, responding to AT commands) but I can't quite seem to
>>> get minicom to talk to it.  It's not a winmodem as far as I know.
>>> According to dmesg, the pcmcia system sees the card, then serial_cs sees
>>> the card and identifies it as a 16550A sittign on IRQ 3 0x3e8.  It
>>> eventually gets assigned to /dev/ttyS2.
>>>
>>> So far nothing seems out of the ordinary but I just can't seem to get it
>>> to respond to any basic commands (not even plain AT for which I should
>>> see OK).  I know the cardbus system is working because I also have a
>>> wireless network card in there and that's working fine.
>>>
>>> Ideas for probing and testing the modem?
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