Comment 24 for bug 375148

On Tuesday 18 August 2009 11:19:46 am أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 02:18:39AM -0000, seasoned_geek wrote:
> > This appears to be busted pretty bad in Karmic Koala.
> >
> > I followed the instructions from here. I had both a /dev/ttySL0 and
> > /dev/modem. wvdial was able to communicate with modem, but was always
> > getting NO CARRIER which I now see is bug 237773. Since I was stupid
> > and didn't check for that bug before rebooting, I now no longer have a
> > /dev/ttySL0. (i.e. this bug.)
> >
> > Is there some faint hope of actually getting this fixed in the Karmic
> > build tree? Judging from these messages it looks like the thing only
> > works on one machine in the world. I don't need to receive faxes, but I
> > do have to send some. I'm trying my SmartLink modem because the
> > Intel536EP package will no longer build under Karmic, "owner" got
> > dropped from a structure in favor of UID and GID.
> >
> > This really needs to be fixed in Karmic.
>
> ---end quoted text---
>
> Please try sl-modem 2.9.11~20090222-2~5.gbpb41b1b from my PPA [1]
> In this package I've re-enabled udev support.
>
> [1] http://launchpad.net/~aelmahmoudy/+archive/ppa

I clicked on the i386.deb package and the installation shows the following:

(Reading database ... (Reading database ... 5%(Reading database ...
10%(Reading database ... 15%(Reading database ... 20%(Reading database ...
25%(Reading database ... 30%(Reading database ... 35%(Reading database ...
40%(Reading database ... 45%(Reading database ... 50%(Reading database ...
55%(Reading database ... 60%(Reading database ... 65%(Reading database ...
70%(Reading database ... 75%(Reading database ... 80%(Reading database ...
85%(Reading database ... 90%(Reading database ... 95%(Reading database ...
100%(Reading database ... 153475 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace sl-modem-daemon 2.9.11~20080817-3ubuntu2 (using .../sl-
modem-daemon_2.9.11~20090222-2~5.gbpb41b1b_i386.deb) ...
Shutting down SmartLink Modem driver normally ... no slmodemd daemon running.
Unloading modem driver from kernel ... slamr.
Unpacking replacement sl-modem-daemon ...
Setting up sl-modem-daemon (2.9.11~20090222-2~5.gbpb41b1b) ...
The system user `Slmodemd' already exists. Exiting.
Starting SmartLink Modem driver for: slamr0.
Creating /dev/modem symlink, pointing to: /dev/ttySL0.

Processing triggers for man-db ...

However, I see this in the device directory
roland@logikaldesktop:/drive_d/dec_book_cd$ dir /dev
adsp loop3 ram5 snd tty32 tty62
audio loop4 ram6 sndstat tty33 tty63
binder loop5 ram7 sr0 tty34 tty7
block loop6 ram8 stderr tty35 tty8
bus loop7 ram9 stdin tty36 tty9
cdrom lp0 random stdout tty37 ttyS0
cdrw mapper rfkill tty tty38 ttyS1
char mem rtc tty0 tty39 ttyS2
console mixer rtc0 tty1 tty4 ttyS3
core modem scd0 tty10 tty40 urandom
cpu_dma_latency net sda tty11 tty41 usb
disk network_latency sda1 tty12 tty42 usblp0
dsp network_throughput sda5 tty13 tty43 usbmon0
dvd null sda6 tty14 tty44 usbmon1
dvdrw oldmem sda7 tty15 tty45 usbmon2
ecryptfs parport0 sdb tty16 tty46 vcs
fd pktcdvd sdb1 tty17 tty47 vcs2
fd0 port sdb2 tty18 tty48 vcs3
full ppp sdb5 tty19 tty49 vcs4
fuse psaux sdb6 tty2 tty5 vcs5
hidraw0 ptmx sdb7 tty20 tty50 vcs6
hidraw1 pts sdc tty21 tty51 vcs7
hidraw2 ram0 sdc1 tty22 tty52 vcs8
hidraw3 ram1 sdd tty23 tty53 vcsa
hidraw4 ram10 sequencer tty24 tty54 vcsa2
hpet ram11 sequencer2 tty25 tty55 vcsa3
initctl ram12 sg0 tty26 tty56 vcsa4
input ram13 sg1 tty27 tty57 vcsa5
kmsg ram14 sg2 tty28 tty58 vcsa6
log ram15 sg3 tty29 tty59 vcsa7
loop0 ram2 sg4 tty3 tty6 vcsa8
loop1 ram3 shm tty30 tty60 xconsole
loop2 ram4 snapshot tty31 tty61 zero

When I try dialing I see the following:

roland@logikaldesktop:~$ wvdial
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60
--> Cannot open /dev/ttySL0: No such file or directory
--> Cannot open /dev/ttySL0: No such file or directory
--> Cannot open /dev/ttySL0: No such file or directory
roland@logikaldesktop:~$

Is there a step I'm missing?

I do have a real USR modem on order because this problem and the Intel536ep
problem have been sooooooooooooooo annoying. I've been paying $2.00/fax to
send faxes via internet.

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