Canīt find my PCI Agere SoftModem in /dev/modem

[opensas]

Hi!

I'm about to finish my first gentoo install, the only thing missing (so far now) is to configure the modem.

I have an Asus a7n8x Deluxe, with an integrated Algere PCI modem.

My Xp box gives me the following info

Bus PCI 1, device 7 function 0

port com3

max speed 115200

ATI3 Agere SoftModem Version 2.1.41.10
ATI5 2.1.41.10,PCI,Perseus, 33
ATI7 PCI

Recursos

Intervalo de Memoria    ED001000 - ED0010FF
Intervalo de E/S   A000 - A007
Intervalo de E/S   A400 - A4FF
IRQ         19

I tried to boot with knoppix 3.6, and then configure the dial-up connection with kpppp, but knoppix finds no /dev/modem device.

On the other hand, the gentoo 2004.2 livecd recognizes does find a /dev/modem, but I donīt know what modules are being used.

Therefore I have two questions:

1. How can I tell which modules are being used by a specific device, or, to be more specific, how can I know what options should I enable in make menuconfig?

2. How should I configure my gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r11 sources to recognize my modem?

This is what lspci -v, after booting with the gentoo 2004.2 livecd, tells me about my modem

0000:01:07.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics V.92 56K WinModem (rev 02)
   Subsystem: Lucent Microelectronics: Unknown device 044c
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
   Memory at ed001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
   I/O ports at a000 [size=8]
   I/O ports at a400 [size=256]
   Capabilities: [f8] Power Management version 2

and this is what cat /proc/pci thinks about it

  Bus  1, device   7, function  0:
    Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics V.92 56K WinModem (rev 2).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=252.Max Lat=14.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed001000 [0xed0010ff].
      I/O at 0xa000 [0xa007].
      I/O at 0xa400 [0xa4ff].

and here you have what lsmod thinks about it all

Module                  Size  Used by
nls_iso8859_1           4080  1
nls_cp437               5744  1
vfat                   13520  1
fat                    42976  1 vfat
floppy                 56560  1
uhci_hcd               29600  0
usblp                  11984  0
ohci_hcd               19828  0
sd_mod                 18879  2
evdev                   9152  0
tsdev                   7104  0
sata_sil                7636  1
libata                 37652  1 sata_sil
snd_intel8x0           33484  0
snd_ac97_codec         60052  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm                89156  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_timer              23860  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         11064  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport                4624  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart         7152  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            23524  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          7800  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    51268  7 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               9504  1 snd
nvidia_agp              7340  1
agpgart                31564  1 nvidia_agp
3c59x                  36952  0
parport_pc             23680  0
parport                37960  1 parport_pc
rtc                    12232  0
sbp2                   22136  0
ohci1394               31732  0
ieee1394              302232  2 sbp2,ohci1394
usb_storage            59648  0
ehci_hcd               26516  0

Oh, yes and this is where /dev/modem was pointing to

ls -al /dev/modem

/dev/modem -> ttySL0

Well, I hope all this might be helpfull

Saludos (greetings)

Sas

P.S. If you think it might be usefull, I could post the contents of /proc/config.gz[/code]

[drakebasher]

The key word is "winmodem". If you do just a little research, you'll learn that that is a device which requires proprietary software to call for the cpu to do the work of a real modem. Suitable Linux software drivers have been written for some "winmodems" but far from all. If you can't find the right driver, best bet is to get a real "hardware" modem, either internal or external. I've gotten a couple of these pretty cheap off of ebay.