Re: [Sheflug] ISDN BT Speedway card refuses to work under RedHat6.2

[Jim Jackson <nospam [at] scs.leeds.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, John Cordner wrote:

> 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.

Have you got your ISP name servers configured in your /etc/resolv.conf
file. Try ping with a known IP number and see if you have connectivity.

> 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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