wolvix 1.0.5 on Thinkpad 600 problems

[singleton]

I installed wolvix 1.0.5 on an old thinkpad 600 laptop with 288 MB ram. The system is quick and pleasing to use. However, I have a few problems:

* I can't get my usb flash drives to work
* my pcmcia modem (CNet SinglePoint 56K) doesn't seem to work; I am not sure how to check if it does. The laptop has a built in modem, if I could get that to work I would have no need for the pcmcia modem, but later on i may get ah wifi pcmcia card so I think the knowledge from fixing this problem would help with dealing with that.
* The sound doesn't work either but that is secondary
* I also need help getting suspend to work


I chose wolvix because it runs the fastest of all the distros i tried and installed without problems. Also I want to learn about linux.

I use this laptop in school (mathematics and computer science double major) just to have somEthing mobile. I want programming tools not provided by the bare install: g++, schemE, clisp, ...so i need a way to install other programs.

Lastly, I think I NEED to say, after switching to linux 2 years ago I will never turn back and want to thank the wolvix team and the whole linux community for working hard to provide such an impressive OS.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, I have been reading around and tried other distros but I am back to wolvix now...oh I don't have blank cds now and I downloaded this version years ago.

[Hal343]

Please post output of :

lspci

so we can find out what chip is running the modem

[reed9]

Well, since no one else has answered at all, I'll try and guide you in the right direction a little. There's a couple of challenges, first, that 1.0.5 was released in 2006, and probably isn't well supported anymore. Even if you got an internet connection, I'm not sure if the Wolvix project is maintaining packages for that version any more. If at all possible, I would try upgrading the latest version. Or look for other light-weight linux distros. Antix should run quite well on that machine.

Otherwise, if you aren't aware, Wolvix is based on Slackware, so when looking for help, anything that applies to slackware should also be applicable to Wolvix.

Network Hardware Configuration
The Slackware Linux Project: Configuration Help

Check the output of lspci to get more info on your pcmcia modem. If you get a wifi card, it will probably be far less troublesome than this. Though wireless support in 2006 was not what it is now, so if you aren't able to upgrade, be careful in choosing a card.
PCI - Linux Wireless

EDIT: And Hal343 beats me to the punch while I'm writing.

[Drunk_Mexican]

The latest stable release is 1.1.0 I highly recommend to get the latest stable.

Slackware packages work fine on Wolvix and the output of lscpi gives you the chip set.

If you post here in the forums the out put of

lspci

we can help you further.

As for the sound, have you runned ALSA config yet?

Also, if you want to learn Linux Wolvix is a decent start because it is Slackware based, but it is not really designed for the Newbie in mind, it sometimes does quirky things that needs a more intermediate or advanced users touch. I use the beta software so that's my experience anyway. You should be just fine with 1.1.0.

[singleton]

Thanks to everyone for the replies.

I think i would take your advice and get wolvix 1.1.0(@Drunk_Mexican and reed9 ) or even Antix. It's just that I didn't want to give up so easily, and thought i would learn somE things from fixing the problems with 1.0.5. I'll still give an update on what I have been up to and the progress I made. I would try any suggestions made for wolvix 1.0.5 in the spirit of education.

OK let mE see how clear I can be. By reading around I found that acpi is not supported well for this machine. So I now boot with acpi=off sent to the kernel. I can now mount my usb flash drives. But, my pcmcia modem freezes the computer when inserted, therefore I am unable to enter commands at a terminal. So no lspci while the card is in .

When i close the lid on the laptop, it seems to go into standby mode (fans off and and standby light on). Don't know if that confirms that standby works.

I ran su alsaconf and it asked if i wanted to probe isa sound cards. I chose yes after somE work it said that it configured snd-cs4236. aplay -l shows :

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: CS4237B [CS4237B], device 0: CS4231 [CS4237B]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

after restart though...I am lookin around to find out how to check if sound is in fact working. I can say that the mic works; I started xfce and used the mixer raised the volumE of the mic and could hear myself in the speakers. However i can't get sound while playing cd's with vlc, or xine player.

Information around says that the internal modem is a mwave acp modem and IBM released a driver. Also somE say that suse and Debian have packages for installing the driver in their repositories. Not sure if packages are available for wolvix or if i have to compile it myself. Either way I need internet access to get the needed packages or kernel source and compiler for compiling.

Antix download almost finished going for a ride to get somE cds hope the download and burn is error free...

Thanx again every one for taking the timE to respond..

[Drunk_Mexican]

Let's get one thing fixed at a time.

After you have Wolvix 1.1.0 installed get VLC.

Here are some Slackpackages you may like.
Index of /slackware-12.2

...and here is VLC....
Index of /slackware-12.2/multimedia/vlc

Let's try to get audio up first.

[singleton]

ok. Wolvix took a while to download. I installed both wolvix 1.1.0 and antiX-M8.

I booted with acpi=off and configured sound with alsaconf. Sound works now after reboot. The driver for this sound chip is not in antiX-M8 it seems.

With acpi=off I don't get any usb flash disk problems so that problem is solved too.

Getting connected to the internet is first priority for mE because i want to install packages : vim, gnu compiler set, python 2.6, jdk...

pcmcia modem still freezes the computer when inserted (in both wolvix and antiX). I am still lost about the internal modem. I know that wolvix 1.1.0 has the mwave module available; it seems as though antix does not. Any help with the modem would be nice now that sound is ok.

sorry i took so long to update you all, and thanx for the help again.

[reed9]

Here's some stuff that might help with the sound.
ALSA Support for CS4235/CS4236/CS4236B/CS4237B/CS4238B/CS4239 based sound cards - Ubuntu Forums
Making the cs4237b soundcard work on old Dell CP and CPi laptops

Please post the output of
lspci -knn
lsmod
dmesg

to help troubleshoot. (For the last two, let us know if that was in Antix or Wolvix.)

[singleton]

That was fast. If it is not too much to ask can we get the modem working first. Sound is working in wolvix not yet in antix; but dat is not important right now.

since wolvix seems most promising right now I would work on that first:

lspci -knn not sure if -knn is a valid switch to lspci but here is lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 02)
00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1250 (rev 02)
00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1250 (rev 02)
00:03.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] (rev 01)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01)

here is lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
ppp_generic            27284  0 
slhc                    9856  1 ppp_generic
serial_cs              24460  0 
ipv6                  259744  10 
snd_seq_dummy           7052  0 
snd_seq_oss            33664  0 
snd_seq_midi_event     10112  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                50672  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            45760  0 
snd_mixer_oss          18816  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_cs4236             19720  2 
snd_opl3_lib           12928  1 snd_cs4236
snd_hwdep              10756  1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_cs4236_lib         18560  1 snd_cs4236
snd_mpu401_uart        10880  1 snd_cs4236
snd_rawmidi            23104  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device         10508  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd_cs4231_lib         24960  2 snd_cs4236,snd_cs4236_lib
snd_pcm                74892  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_cs4236_lib,snd_cs4231_lib
snd_timer              23944  4 snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm
snd                    48484  18 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_cs4236,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_cs4236_lib,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              10208  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         11656  2 snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm
sg                     32040  0 
capability              7436  0 
commoncap               9344  1 capability
fuse                   44564  1 
agpgart                33352  0 
lp                     14120  0 
parport_pc             28772  1 
parport                35144  2 lp,parport_pc
psmouse                40096  0 
pcmcia                 35756  1 serial_cs
ata_generic             9480  0 
yenta_socket           28444  2 
rsrc_nonstatic         15244  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            38716  4 serial_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
serio_raw               9476  0 
i2c_piix4              11796  0 
evdev                  12288  1 
pcspkr                  6656  0

here is dmesg:

Linux version 2.6.21.5 (root@wolvix) (gcc version 3.4.6) #1 SMP Mon Jul 9 16:23:08 CEST 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
sanitize start
sanitize end
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 000000000009fc00 end: 000000000009fc00 type: 1
copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009fc00 size: 0000000000000400 end: 00000000000a0000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000f0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 0000000000100000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 0000000011ed0000 end: 0000000011fd0000 type: 1
copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000011fd0000 size: 000000000000f000 end: 0000000011fdf000 type: 3
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000011fdf000 size: 0000000000001000 end: 0000000011fe0000 type: 4
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000011fe0000 size: 0000000000020000 end: 0000000012000000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fffe0000 size: 0000000000020000 end: 0000000100000000 type: 2
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000011fd0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000011fd0000 - 0000000011fdf000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000011fdf000 - 0000000011fe0000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000011fe0000 - 0000000012000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
287MB LOWMEM available.
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 73680) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA             0 ->     4096
  Normal       4096 ->    73680
  HighMem     73680 ->    73680
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0:        0 ->    73680
On node 0 totalpages: 73680
  DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
  DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
  DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
  Normal zone: 543 pages used for memmap
  Normal zone: 69041 pages, LIFO batch:15
  HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
DMI 2.0 present.
IBM Thinkpad 600 Series 2645 detected: force use of acpi=noirq
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 12000000:edfe0000)
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 73105
Kernel command line: lang=en_US root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=791 splash=silent acpi=off pnpbios=off
bootsplash: silent mode.
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (0124b000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
Detected 298.440 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 282196k/294720k available (6013k kernel code, 11932k reserved, 1995k data, 380k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
    fixmap  : 0xffe16000 - 0xfffff000   (1956 kB)
    pkmap   : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000   (4096 kB)
    vmalloc : 0xd2800000 - 0xff7fe000   ( 719 MB)
    lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xd1fd0000   ( 287 MB)
      .init : 0xc08dc000 - 0xc093b000   ( 380 kB)
      .data : 0xc06df5a8 - 0xc08d23ac   (1995 kB)
      .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc06df5a8   (6013 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 597.39 BogoMIPS (lpj=298696)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 23k freed
CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI Exception (utmutex-0263): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Thread C12BDA30 could not acquire Mutex [1] [20070126]
No dock devices found.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd880, last bus=6
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 2.20 loaded.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Boot video device is 0000:00:03.0
* Found PM-Timer Bug on the chipset. Due to workarounds for a bug,
* this clock source is slow. Consider trying other clock sources
PCI quirk: region ef00-ef3f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI
PCI quirk: region efa0-efaf claimed by PIIX4 SMB
PIIX4 devres B PIO at 02f8-02ff
PIIX4 devres E PIO at 0538-053f
PIIX4 devres G PIO at 0130-013f
PIIX4 devres I PIO at 002e-002f
PIIX4 devres J PIO at 15e8-15ef
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 0000:00:07.0
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:03.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:02.1
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
PCI: Ignore bogus resource 6 [0:0] of 0000:00:03.0
PCI: Bus 1, cardbus bridge: 0000:00:02.0
  IO window: 00001000-000010ff
  IO window: 00001400-000014ff
  PREFETCH window: 24000000-27ffffff
  MEM window: 28000000-2bffffff
PCI: Bus 5, cardbus bridge: 0000:00:02.1
  IO window: 00001800-000018ff
  IO window: 00001c00-00001cff
  PREFETCH window: 2c000000-2fffffff
  MEM window: 30000000-33ffffff
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:03.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:02.1
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 196608 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
TCP reno registered
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 172k freed
IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
JFS: nTxBlock = 2207, nTxLock = 17662
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
OCFS2 1.3.3
OCFS2 Node Manager 1.3.3
OCFS2 DLM 1.3.3
OCFS2 DLMFS 1.3.3
OCFS2 User DLM kernel interface loaded
GFS2 (built Jul  9 2007 16:19:42) installed
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xd2980000, using 1984k, total 1984k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=0
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:8e10
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c8e10, set palette = c00c8e10
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 34645 bytes,<6> does not fit into framebuffer.
...found (1024x768, 21785 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 122x42
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a NS16550A
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: module loaded
Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.6.0)
HP CISS Driver (v 3.6.14)
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcf0-0xfcf7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcf8-0xfcff, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 90858977 ns)
Time: pit clocksource has been installed.
hda: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1902B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 19640880 sectors (10056 MB) w/384KiB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes not supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Loading iSCSI transport class v2.0-724.
iscsi: registered transport (tcp)
Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5go
Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers...
Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-5[2423]-mh3)
aic94xx: Adaptec aic94xx SAS/SATA driver version 1.0.3 loaded
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0-ac
qlogicfas: no cards were found, please specify I/O address and IRQ using iobase= and irq= options<6>QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver
iscsi: registered transport (qla4xxx)
QLogic iSCSI HBA Driver
Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI driver 8.1.11
Copyright(c) 2004-2006 Emulex.  All rights reserved.
seagate: ST0x/TMC-8xx not detected.
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
DC390: clustering now enabled by default. If you get problems load
	with "disable_clustering=1" and report to maintainers
megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.7 (Release Date: Sun Jul 16 00:01:03 EST 2006)
megaraid: 2.20.5.1 (Release Date: Thu Nov 16 15:32:35 EST 2006)
megasas: 00.00.03.10-rc1 Wed Feb 14 10:14:25 PST 2007
GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.05
GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.02.002.
3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.008.
nsp32: loading...
ipr: IBM Power RAID SCSI Device Driver version: 2.3.1 (January 23, 2007)
RocketRAID 3xxx SATA Controller driver v1.0 (060426)
st: Version 20070203, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
I2O subsystem v1.325
i2o: max drivers = 8
I2O Configuration OSM v1.323
I2O Bus Adapter OSM v1.317
I2O Block Device OSM v1.325
I2O SCSI Peripheral OSM v1.316
I2O ProcFS OSM v1.316
Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.04
Copyright (c) 1999-2007 LSI Logic Corporation
Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.04
Fusion MPT FC Host driver 3.04.04
Fusion MPT SAS Host driver 3.04.04
usbmon: debugfs is not available
116x: driver isp116x-hcd, 03 Nov 2005
ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:07.2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 11, io base 0x00008400
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
sl811: driver sl811-hcd, 19 May 2005
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: linear personality registered for level -1
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
md: raid10 personality registered for level 10
raid6: int32x1     74 MB/s
raid6: int32x2     82 MB/s
raid6: int32x4     66 MB/s
raid6: int32x8     70 MB/s
raid6: mmxx1      171 MB/s
raid6: mmxx2      210 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm mmxx2 (210 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
   8regs     :   488.000 MB/sec
   8regs_prefetch:   460.000 MB/sec
   32regs    :   264.000 MB/sec
   32regs_prefetch:   248.000 MB/sec
   pII_mmx   :   748.000 MB/sec
   p5_mmx    :   776.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: p5_mmx (776.000 MB/sec)
md: multipath personality registered for level -4
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
TCP cubic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 380k freed
Adding 610460k swap on /dev/hda3.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:610460k
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: Found 0000:00:07.3 device
piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: IBM system detected; this module may corrupt your serial eeprom! Refusing to load module!
piix4_smbus: probe of 0000:00:07.3 failed with error -1
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:02.0 [1014:0092]
Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.0, mfunc 0xfba97543, devctl 0x62
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0698, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:02.1 [1014:0092]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.1, mfunc 0xfba97543, devctl 0x62
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0698, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x80f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x130-0x137 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x388-0x38f
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x80f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x130-0x137 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x388-0x38f
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
fuse init (API version 7.8)
fuse distribution version: 2.6.5
Capability LSM initialized
IBM TrackPoint firmware: 0x0b, buttons: 3/3
input: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint as /class/input/input3
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda4, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
pccard: card ejected from slot 0
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access              USB Flash Memory 6.50 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
SCSI device sda: 1944287 512-byte hdwr sectors (995 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 1944287 512-byte hdwr sectors (995 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access              USB Flash Memory 6.50 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
SCSI device sda: 1944287 512-byte hdwr sectors (995 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 1944287 512-byte hdwr sectors (995 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 3
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access              USB Flash Memory 6.50 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
SCSI device sda: 1944287 512-byte hdwr sectors (995 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 1944287 512-byte hdwr sectors (995 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1
sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 4
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 5
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access              USB Flash Memory 6.50 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
SCSI device sda: 1944287 512-byte hdwr sectors (995 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 1944287 512-byte hdwr sectors (995 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 5
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 6
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access              USB Flash Memory 6.50 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
SCSI device sda: 1944287 512-byte hdwr sectors (995 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 1944287 512-byte hdwr sectors (995 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1
sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 6
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status=0, message=00, host=1, driver=00 
sda : sense not available. 
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status=0, message=00, host=1, driver=00 
sda : sense not available. 
scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 7
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access              USB Flash Memory 6.50 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
SCSI device sda: 1944287 512-byte hdwr sectors (995 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 1944287 512-byte hdwr sectors (995 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1
sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

i thank you again.

[reed9]

lspci -knn not sure if -knn is a valid switch to lspci but here is lspci:

According to my man page

-k Show kernel drivers handling each device and also kernel modules
capable of handling it. Turned on by default when -v is given
in the normal mode of output. (Currently works only on Linux
with kernel 2.6 or newer.)

-nn Show PCI vendor and device codes as both numbers and names.

Anyway, I don't see anything in your output regarding the modem. Googling around for CNet Singlepoint, it looks like this is a Conexant winmodem. Which means there's a good chance this won't work under linux. I've yet to find anything to indicate that it will, at least.

There is this old info page on winmodems and linux:
linmodems.org