1 Linux ACM driver v0.16 2 (c) 1999 Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> 3 Sponsored by SuSE 4---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 60. Disclaimer 7~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 9under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free 10Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) 11any later version. 12 13 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 14WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY 15or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 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Usage 30~~~~~~~~ 31 The drivers/usb/acm.c drivers works with USB modems and USB ISDN terminal 32adapters that conform to the Universal Serial Bus Communication Device Class 33Abstract Control Model (USB CDC ACM) specification. 34 35 Many modems do, here is a list of those I know of: 36 37 3Com OfficeConnect 56k 38 3Com Voice FaxModem Pro 39 3Com Sportster 40 MultiTech MultiModem 56k 41 Zoom 2986L FaxModem 42 Compaq 56k FaxModem 43 ELSA Microlink 56k 44 45 I know of one ISDN TA that does work with the acm driver: 46 47 3Com USR ISDN Pro TA 48 49 Unfortunately many modems and most ISDN TAs use proprietary interfaces and 50thus won't work with this drivers. Check for ACM compliance before buying. 51 52 The driver (with devfs) creates these devices in /dev/usb/acm: 53 54 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 166, 0 Apr 1 10:49 0 55 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 166, 1 Apr 1 10:49 1 56 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 166, 2 Apr 1 10:49 2 57 58 And so on, up to 31, with the limit being possible to change in acm.c to up 59to 256, so you can use up to 256 USB modems with one computer (you'll need 60three USB cards for that, though). 61 62 If you don't use devfs, then you can create device nodes with the same 63minor/major numbers anywhere you want, but either the above location or 64/dev/usb/ttyACM0 is preferred. 65 66 To use the modems you need these modules loaded: 67 68 usbcore.o 69 usb-[uo]hci.o or uhci.o 70 acm.o 71 72 After that, the modem[s] should be accessible. You should be able to use 73minicom, ppp and mgetty with them. 74 752. Verifying that it works 76~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 77 The first step would be to check /proc/bus/usb/devices, it should look 78like this: 79 80T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 81B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 82D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 83P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00 84S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub 85S: SerialNumber=6800 86C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA 87I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub 88E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms 89T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 90D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=02(comm.) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 2 91P: Vendor=04c1 ProdID=008f Rev= 2.07 92S: Manufacturer=3Com Inc. 93S: Product=3Com U.S. Robotics Pro ISDN TA 94S: SerialNumber=UFT53A49BVT7 95C: #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=60 MxPwr= 0mA 96I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=acm 97E: Ad=85(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms 98E: Ad=04(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms 99E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 16 Ivl=128ms 100C:* #Ifs= 2 Cfg#= 2 Atr=60 MxPwr= 0mA 101I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=02(comm.) Sub=02 Prot=01 Driver=acm 102E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 16 Ivl=128ms 103I: If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=0a(data ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=acm 104E: Ad=85(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms 105E: Ad=04(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms 106 107The presence of these three lines (and the Cls= 'comm' and 'data' classes) 108is important, it means it's an ACM device. The Driver=acm means the acm 109driver is used for the device. If you see only Cls=ff(vend.) then you're out 110of luck, you have a device with vendor specific-interface. 111 112D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=02(comm.) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 2 113I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=02(comm.) Sub=02 Prot=01 Driver=acm 114I: If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=0a(data ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=acm 115 116In the system log you should see: 117 118usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 2 119usb.c: kmalloc IF c7691fa0, numif 1 120usb.c: kmalloc IF c7b5f3e0, numif 2 121usb.c: skipped 4 class/vendor specific interface descriptors 122usb.c: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 123usb.c: USB device number 2 default language ID 0x409 124Manufacturer: 3Com Inc. 125Product: 3Com U.S. Robotics Pro ISDN TA 126SerialNumber: UFT53A49BVT7 127acm.c: probing config 1 128acm.c: probing config 2 129ttyACM0: USB ACM device 130acm.c: acm_control_msg: rq: 0x22 val: 0x0 len: 0x0 result: 0 131acm.c: acm_control_msg: rq: 0x20 val: 0x0 len: 0x7 result: 7 132usb.c: acm driver claimed interface c7b5f3e0 133usb.c: acm driver claimed interface c7b5f3f8 134usb.c: acm driver claimed interface c7691fa0 135 136If all this seems to be OK, fire up minicom and set it to talk to the ttyACM 137device and try typing 'at'. If it responds with 'OK', then everything is 138working. 139