[lug] Newbie tries to make laptop modem work

[Glenn Murray]

With predictable results.  

I have a Fujitsu LifeBook 985Tx laptop with what Win98 says is a
Fujitsu LifeBook K56 Flex DVSD LTModem. (The laptop is running Debian
with a 2.2.19 kernel image.)  Research indicates this is a winmodem
made by Lucent.  Note also:

/$ cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
...
  Bus  0, device  16, function  0:
    Communication controller: Lucent (ex-AT&T) Microelectronics L56xMF (rev 0).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 9.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=252.Max Lat=14.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfedffc00 [0xfedffc00].
      I/O at 0xf4c8 [0xf4c9].
      I/O at 0xf800 [0xf801].
...

Apparently this modem is supported as a linmodem
(http://www.heby.de/ltmodem) whence I downloaded and installed the
following (after installing kernel-image-2.2.19 for compatibility). 

glenn at puck:glenn/$ sudo dpkg -i ltmodem-2.2.19_6.00b6_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package ltmodem-2.2.19.
(Reading database ... 50515 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ltmodem-2.2.19 (from ltmodem-2.2.19_6.00b6_i386.deb) ...
Setting up ltmodem-2.2.19 (6.00b6) ...
   Made device file    /dev/ttyLT0
     group ownership set to dialout
   Made symbolic link    /dev/modem --> /dev/ttyLT0
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/lt_serial.o

I then tried to run wvdialconf:

glenn at puck:glenn/$ sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf
Scanning your serial ports for a modem.
ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- ATQ0 V1 E1 -- ATQ0 V1 E1 -- nothing.
Port Scan<*1>: S1   S2
Sorry, no modem was detected!  Is it in use by another program?
Did you configure it properly with setserial?
Please read the FAQ at http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial/
If you still have problems, send mail to wvdial-list at worldvisions.ca.

I also tried kppp which presented a dialog that said "Looking for
modem..." and then "Modem not found".  This is a PCI modem, so why is
wvdial checking serial ports?

Any help much appreciated,
Glenn Murray
www.mines.edu/~gmurray/public_html/Welcome.html