[wellylug] Smartlink winmodem issue

[Lyndsay Mountfort]

Hi Luggers

I wonder if anyone has experienced this or a similar problem:

I have an onboard SiS630 AC'97 winmodem in my asus laptop using a 
Smartlink driver. This works fine at or soon after boot up, but after 
the laptop has been running for a while, it fails. It dials ok, but 
fails to negotiate successfuly, and eventually kppp reports "no 
carrier". If I listen to what is coming from the modems (via a phone 
handset) at that stage all there is is a high pitched warbling noise. 
Redialling just ends up with the same result.

All I need to do to get it to go again, is stop and restart the driver 
daemon (slmodemd).

Also I have to do this at the command line - running the same two 
commands via a shell script seems to work, but KPPP fails to find the 
modem device, but I guess that's a separate issue.

But my question is - does anyone have any suggestions as to why the 
whole setup fails after a certain amount of time, and why restarting the 
daemon clears it up. Maybe it is effectively the same as resetting the 
modem??

I'm now running Mepis Linux (Debian unstable) with a 2.6.4 kernel. The 
modem worked "out of the box" with this distro. But I had very similar 
issues with the same laptop running RadHat 9 once I got the modem going 
at all by installing the driver myself, although at that stage I hadn't 
discovered the "cure" by restarting the daemon.

Any helpful comments or even speculation as to what is going on would be 
much appreciated!

Lyndsay