ibook g4 modem

Typhoon · External Since: May 13, 2007 Posts: 7

Hi,
I tried to search the archives on this since I am sure that it has been
discussed, but the search system seems to be broken. Googling didn't
help, at least the way that I did it.

Is there some clever trick to get the internal dialup modem working
under Etch on the iBook G4?

Thanks,
Alan

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José_Salavert_Torres · External Since: Jun 30, 2007 Posts: 1

I have a G4 Quicksilver and I think that it is a serial device.
(Serial port directly conected to the modem)

El 30/06/2007, a las 0:36, Typhoon escribió:

> Hi,
> I tried to search the archives on this since I am sure that it has
> been
> discussed, but the search system seems to be broken. Googling didn't
> help, at least the way that I did it.
>
> Is there some clever trick to get the internal dialup modem working
> under Etch on the iBook G4?
>
> Thanks,
> Alan
>
>
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Typhoon · External Since: May 13, 2007 Posts: 7

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:12:48 +0200
José Salavert Torres <jsalavert RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a G4 Quicksilver and I think that it is a serial device.
> (Serial port directly conected to the modem)

Using the Gnome Networking application under Administration, it can't
autodetect any modem device. And setting the ttyXX devices by hand does
no good.

I think I must be missing something, but I don't know what.

Thanks,
Alan

>
> El 30/06/2007, a las 0:36, Typhoon escribió:
>
> > Hi,
> > I tried to search the archives on this since I am sure that it has
> > been
> > discussed, but the search system seems to be broken. Googling didn't
> > help, at least the way that I did it.
> >
> > Is there some clever trick to get the internal dialup modem working
> > under Etch on the iBook G4?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alan
> >
> >
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Magnus Rosenbaum · External Since: Jul 12, 2007 Posts: 2

Typhoon wrote:
> Using the Gnome Networking application under Administration, it can't
> autodetect any modem device. And setting the ttyXX devices by hand does
> no good.

I have a iBook G4 12" 1,33GHz (mid 2005), I don't know which model you
exacly have. AFAIK the modem is not usable from Linux and it is not a
serial device. I have some comment on this on my website:
http://cmr.cx/ibook/linux/ibook_linux.html

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Typhoon · External Since: May 13, 2007 Posts: 7

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:02:51 +0200
Magnus Rosenbaum <cmr_lists.RemoveThis@forestfactory.de> wrote:

> Typhoon wrote:
> > Using the Gnome Networking application under Administration, it
> > can't autodetect any modem device. And setting the ttyXX devices by
> > hand does no good.
>
> I have a iBook G4 12" 1,33GHz (mid 2005), I don't know which model you
> exacly have. AFAIK the modem is not usable from Linux and it is not a
> serial device. I have some comment on this on my website:
> http://cmr.cx/ibook/linux/ibook_linux.html

Thanks for that. No modem, but I learned a lot about the machine. A
very useful web site.

Cheers,
Alan
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Simon Valiquette · External Since: Sep 13, 2006 Posts: 19

Magnus Rosenbaum un jour écrivit:
> Typhoon wrote:
>> Using the Gnome Networking application under Administration, it can't
>> autodetect any modem device. And setting the ttyXX devices by hand does
>> no good.
>
> I have a iBook G4 12" 1,33GHz (mid 2005), I don't know which model you
> exacly have. AFAIK the modem is not usable from Linux and it is not a
> serial device.

Actually, the real problem is that It is a soft modem or something like
that (just like a WinModem) for which we don't have the specs. But
LinuxAnt is selling a driver for 20$ and is also providing another, slower
one, for free.

Don't complain to them: at least they did provide a working driver
while having only little hope for making any decent profit with the PPC
plateform.

http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hcf/index.php
http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/

If you don't want to buy one, then you will have to download the driver
and recompile It. It is the third driver if you start from the end.

http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hcf/full/downloads.php

I didn't compiled It recently, so I cannot confirm if It still works.
I remember that It did works with YellowDog, but I didn't used this
distribution for a while.

Simon Valiquette

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Magnus Rosenbaum · External Since: Jul 12, 2007 Posts: 2

Simon Valiquette wrote:
> Actually, the real problem is that It is a soft modem or something
> like that (just like a WinModem) for which we don't have the specs. But
> LinuxAnt is selling a driver for 20$ and is also providing another,
> slower one, for free.

I don't think this driver will work with the modem in my iBook G4. But I
don't know which model the OP has.

The driver is for modems based on the Connexant chip. My old iBook G3 had
a modem which should work with this driver.

At the time when I needed the driver it did not work. I filed a bug report
and about one year later (!) they sent me a mail that the bug has now been
fixed. But then I had no more use for it, so I never got it working.

The iBook G4 seems to have a Motorola chip modem, which is connected to
this "I2S"-bus. So it does not even have a PCI or USB ID to identify it.

cu, Magnus

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