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intuxik8ed · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 19 Location: Manila, Philippines

Hi guys,

An acquaintance is selling me a Lucent modem with a chipset with 1646 (that's all I remember) stamped on the big chip and 1034 on the smaller one.

Question is, are they compatible with Puppy? He says that they have several in stock, and I will visit his store tomorrow. Price is 90 pesos, about 2 dollars US.

I've been hearing a lot of stuff about Lucent chipsets but I don't know anybody over here who's using them in a current 2.6.x-kernel distro. So, should I buy it?

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

latest puppies with 2.6 kernel come with ltmodem driver. this link here seems relatively positive about lucent 1646:1034 chipset & linux:

http://www.xmodem.org/modems/pci_list.html

intuxik8ed · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 19 Location: Manila, Philippines

Thanks bro. I will buy it and let you know if it works.

intuxik8ed · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 19 Location: Manila, Philippines

Lucent winmodem connects but at a slow speed of 12-16KBps only. Looks like I'm gonna have to instruct it to utter "voodoo spells" at my ISP to make me connect at my usual rate of 28.8 - 31.2. I use GK Dial, haven't tried Wvdial yet.

The modem is a Modem Master 9250 with a Lucent 1646T00 Rea 12 and a 1034C.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

which pupversion are you using? reason i'm curious is that for a long while
i stuck with pup1.08 as it recognised my lucent winmodem & gave me a
good speed. every distro that would come out after that would "see" my winmodem
but for unknown reasons connect at snail speed.

the only exception i found to this, in the 2.xx series, was 2.14, which connected
at proper speeds. i can't comment on 2.15 & 2.16 as my lappie died prematurely.

but it does raise the intersting question of why things that worked in a previous pup
release, either don't work as well or even cease to work. e.g. see this post by
icpug regarding lucent(agere) winmodem, where barry says nothing has changed:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=18582

other similar threads that i can recall are where gtkam stopped working in some later
versions, and a post from bugman where his scanner, that used to be recognised by
sane, isn't by latest releases. very strange??

intuxik8ed · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 19 Location: Manila, Philippines

2.15CE, dude. My very first Linux distro, and first Puppy version.

PeterH

I confirm that my Puppy hardware/software setup works excellently to BT Dialup. I Have:-
Puppy Version 2.16
pppd Verson 2.4.3
Resident LinModem driver 8.26-alk-8
Agere LT V92 Data+Fax PCI DSP1648 chipset.
Modem Setup CCiTT/ITU 1800 Guardtone.
(default was Bell for North America)
Download at 50+/1 kbps over 3 miles of twisted pair multi-cable on posts.
Connection V42bis

This is as good as I could expect.

N.B. Rvxt with modem-stats does NOT do a good job when asked to do the AT&V or ATI11 commands wih this Modem. It produces much crap & modem noises before outputting the correct fields, but the latter are correct when scrolled down to them. This is a pity as AT&V gives you the actual modem setup FROM THE MODEM & ATI11 gives you much engineering data on the line and bit rate characteristics for the LAST call !