wolvix 1.0.5 on Thinkpad 600 problems

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.

Please post output of :

Code:

lspci

so we can find out what chip is running the modem

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. :D

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

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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.

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 :sad:.

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..

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.

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.

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.)

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

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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:

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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:

Code:

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.

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

According to my man page

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-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