Bug 79897 – wvdial and slmodem don't get along nicely

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED FIXED

[Description subscryer 2005-01-28 15:04:04 UTC]

root # wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf
Scanning your serial ports for a modem.

ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- failed with 2400 baud, next try: 9600 baud
ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- failed with 9600 baud, next try: 115200 baud
ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- and failed too at 115200, giving up.
Port Scan<*1>: S1   S2   S3   S4   S5   S6   S7
ttySL0<Info>: Cannot get information for serial port.
Port Scan<*1>: SL0


Sorry, no modem was detected!  Is it in use by another program?
Did you configure it properly with setserial? 

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Trying to use setserial won't give much better results, it has serious problems trying to access the ttySL0 device, which exists but seems to be unable to reply to queries. Some people report that wvdial 1.53 solves the problem, however I couldn't find that version in portage to confirm.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. setup alsa, slmodem
2. start slmodemd (successful)
3. wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf

Actual Results:  
As above, the modem seems to be unable to handle queries.

Expected Results:  
wvdial should have detected the modem properly.

Acer travelmate 292lmi, uses alsa sound with intel8x0 modules.

Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5,
glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Dec 31 2004, 00:28:45)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r3
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.21-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo-sources
ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd
f77 fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick
imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses
nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real
samba sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-02-13 13:22:42 UTC]

Same problem as in bug #79913: virtual/os-headers should be linux26-headers.

Correct that and re-build glibc, wvstreams and wvdial.
Please report here your results.

[Comment 2 subscryer 2005-02-14 04:44:28 UTC]

emerge --unmerge linux-headers
emerge linux26-headers
emerge glibc
emerge wvstreams wvdial

And still no-go, same output :/

[Comment 3 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-02-17 12:01:20 UTC]

fixed by net-libs/wvstreams-4.0.1-r1

[Comment 4 subscryer 2005-02-18 02:07:42 UTC]

Confirmed