[Sheflug] ISDN BT Speedway card refuses to work under RedHat 6.2

["John Cordner" <nospam [at] btinternet.com>]

Hi All

I have a BT Speedway ISDN card and am having real problems getting it to
work under RedHat 6.1 or 6.2. Windows tells me the card is manufactured by
AVM, so off to AVM web site and the only AVM PCI card appears to be a B1,
which is strange because Linux system info' tells me it's an AVM A1
Fritzcard. So I phoned BT and asked which is it but they really weren't too
sure other than it was definitely an AVM and they thought it was a B1. So
that's my first problem - I suspect it's actually a B1 and that Linux is
lying to me.

Next I tried installing the latest linux4k-utils in RedHat 6.1, read the
documents, particularly the for the AVM cards and followed the instructions
about loading modules. Everything went fine until I tried

	insmod b1pci

when I was informed that the device or resource was busy. The next step
avmcapictrl load /lib/isdn/b1.t4 1 informed me that there was no AVM B1 card
installed (probably due to the failure of the previous step). I mucked
around with various configurations for ages and got nowhere, so out of
desperation downloaded RedHat 6.2 (hoping for better support for the card).
RedHat 6.2 has a neat little isdn-config utility - great! It even lists an
AVM PCI which I selected, input all my ISP info' and wow I get connected (or
so it seemed). Problem is the there are no error messages in
/var/log/messages (in fact I'm told that ppp connected) but I can't browse
anything and if I try and ping my ISP I find that I'm not actually connected
because it goes nowhere - odd, because the modem monitor says I'm connected
and the isdn-config utils says that I'm online. A quick look in the help
section of isdn-config raises even more questions - it says that the AVM B1
card is not supported by that utility (so what's the AVM PCI in the
drop-down list then if it's not a B1), however, it says nothing about the
AVM A1 Fritzcard not being supported; I reconfigure the card as an AVM A1
Fritzcard and with that option I can't even load the isdn sub-system, let
alone getting online/modem lights.

If anyone has managed to get this card connected under Linux, please help.

Thanks in advance

John

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