[ale] Modem identification and connecting

[Jim Kinney]

Cool! If you find out why the IrDA causes a conflict be sure to add to this
thread, please. Oddball kernel issues are weird.
On Nov 10, 2013 12:25 PM, "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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