ltmodem use hangs 686 kernel

[Eric Johnson]

Lucent winmodem (ltmodem) modules load properly, and the modem works with i386 kernel.

/vmlinuz-2.6.15-21-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro quiet splash

Booting with i686, though, and dialling with the same modem settings, causes wvdial to report "Cannot set information for serial port" and the machine locks up.

/vmlinuz-2.6.15-21-686 root=/dev/hda3 ro quiet splash

Adding pci=routeirq and lapic boot options make no difference.

This is a regression from Hoary, where the modem worked perfectly (though it never did work in Breezy).

I have seen this behavior on two laptops: an IBM Thinkpad X22 and a Dell Inspiron 5000.

[Gabriel Patiño (gepatino)]

The same happened to me, runing an old Toshiba Portege 7140.

I've managed to compile the lucent modules on breezy, if I have some time, I'll try to compile it by hand and ask someone how to put it inside linux-restricted-modules-i686

[Gabriel Patiño (gepatino)]

In the README file for the ltmodem module sources, is mentioned that SMP support could be unsupported on some machines, and pakage linux-image-2.6.15-22-686 installs a SMP kernel.

Maybe the problem is related to this, since I'm testing on a single procesor machine, this could be the reason.

I don't have a multi CPU machine to test if ltmodem modules work, so I give up the recompiling tests and go back to linux-image-386, which works great with ltmodem.

[Norbert Fischer (nobart)]

Same problem here: Even scanning the ltmodem within kppp or wvdialconf hangs my computer.

When I have time I try the i386-kernel.

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

This is confirmed by various reports in bug 46885.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

Without a trace or a way to reproduce this, I'm a little unable to do anything. Can anyone try some of the info here?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSystemCrash

[Eric Johnson (eric-el-studio)]

None of those debugging hints work.

Once the system is hung, pressing Alt+SysRq+1 followed by Alt+SysRq+t shows nothing on the console, nor anything in either /var/log/messages or kern.log.

The machine is locked up cold.

Other suggestions?

[Norbert Fischer (nobart)]

I tried many things, but results are already standing above:

  * using a i386-kernel, the modem is found and can be configured. wvdialconf gives some AT-commands and finds the right settings

  * using a i686-kernel: machine locks up when using wvdialconf. Alt+SysRq+..-commands do not work, nothing is reported into any log (looked into messages, kern.log, syslog, debug)

Computer: Gericom 1st Supersonic 1000MHz

Are there other debugging steps available?

[Gabriel Patiño (gepatino)]

Does anyone tried it in a multi-cpu machine?

I've read in the ltmodem documentation that there could be issues with SMP enabled kernels, and i686 has smp support.

Since I don't a multi-processor machine, I quit this bug. There's nothing elso I can do.

See you.

[KarlGoetz (kgoetz)]

On the Dapper final install there is no 686 module for the LT winmodems.
Could this cause lockups if the modem config stuff thinks /dev/modem will be there pointing to /dev/ttyLTM0 when it doesnt exist?
kk

[Ivan Jekic (the-edge)]

I can also confirm this, though I cannot use ltmodem found in restricted package (they don't work - and never did!). I must compile ltmodem-alk8 drivers myself. Even though they are compiled on Generic kernel of Edgy, they cause the machine to hang the moment I try the dialing.

I noticed there's no ltmodem supported in restricted packages for k7/686/generic kernels.... makes me wonder?!

[York Rapp (york-rapp)]

There is no 686 module for the LT winmodems on a Dapper final installation (using the 2.6.15-28-686 image). So I'd compile (without any errors) the current martian driver and have the same problem with wvdial.

Therefore I think it's not a ltmodem-module problem only (also concerns the martian-module).

Any solutions.

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[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for posting this bug.

Is this an issue in Maverick?

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